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Tonight at @limehouselabs -- you know how UK legislation is frequently "The Something (Bit in Brackets) Order 1984" and sometimes even "The Something Else (Bit in Brackets) (Second Bit) Act 1753"?

Well we were curious what the longest set of brackets one after the other is, and it turns out the answer is 6, in cases such as "The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Interim Measures) (Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2003" (along with 17 other such acts!)

There are 468 pieces of legislation with 5 sequential brackety bits (most of them deal with either shellfish poisoning or coronavirus), 2042 pieces with 4, and so on; see the graph below!

A bar chart counting the number of pieces of legislation with "n" sequential bracketed parts, with "n" on the x axis and the counts on the y. The data is as follows: 8528 acts with 0 sequential bracketed parts 66934 with 1 55528 with 2 12247 with 3 2042 with 4 486 with 5 18 with 6
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