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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/admiralty-jurisdiction-british-indian-ocean-territory-order-1984/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/admiralty-jurisdiction-british-indian-ocean-territory-order-1984/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/540",
  "legislation_title": "The Admiralty Jurisdiction (British Indian Ocean Territory) Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/admiralty-jurisdiction-british-indian-ocean-territory-order-1984",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power of Supreme Court to exercise certain powers outside the Territory",
  "text": "The Supreme Court of the Territory may, in accordance with any directions issued from time to time by the Chief Justice of that court, exercise in the United Kingdom in any Admiralty proceeding any of the following powers, that is to say, the power—\n(a) to seal and issue a writ in rem or in personam and to issue a warrant of arrest;\n(b) to hear an application made ex parte and to make any appropriate order thereon;\n(c) to hear an application inter parties and to make any appropriate order thereon, if, but only if, the parties to be heard on the application have agreed to its being heard in the United Kingdom:\nProvided that where an order has been made on an application heard in the United Kingdom under paragraph (b) or (c), the party who obtained the order shall not be entitled to withhold consent to the hearing in the United Kingdom of any application by any other person or party for the variation or rescission of that order;\n(d) to hear and determine an action in rem, if, but only if, the parties to the action have agreed to its being heard in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/540/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:42:37.618222+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}