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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/55-56/64",
  "legislation_title": "Witnesses (Public Inquiries) Protection Act 1892",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/witnesses-public-inquiries-protection-act-1892",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the better Protection of Witnesses giving Evidence before any Royal Commission or any Committee of either House of Parliament, or on other Public Inquiries.\n[28th June 1892]",
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  "status": null,
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      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland."
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