{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/afghanistan-united-nations-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2001/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/392",
  "legislation_title": "The Afghanistan (United Nations Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/afghanistan-united-nations-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, operation, extent and revocation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Afghanistan (United Nations Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 16th February 2001.\n(2) If the Security Council of the United Nations takes any decision which has the effect of cancelling or postponing or suspending the operation of the resolutions adopted by it on 15th October 1999 or 19th December 2000, in whole or in part, this Order shall cease to have effect or its operation shall be postponed or suspended, in whole or in part, as the case may be, in accordance with that decision; and particulars of that decision shall be published by the Governor in a notice in the offical gazette of the Territory.\n(3) (a) This Order shall extend to the territories listed in Schedule 1.\n(b) Article 24 of this Order shall apply to the UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia as set out in Schedule 2.\n(c) In the application of this Order to any of the said territories the expression “the Territory” in this Order means that territory.\n(4) Articles 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 15 shall apply to any person within the Territory and any person elsewhere who:\n(a) is a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, a British National (Overseas) or a British protected person and is ordinarily resident in the Territory; or\n(b) is a body incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the Territory.\n(5) The Afghanistan (United Nations Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 1999 is hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3136."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/392/article/1",
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  "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."
}