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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antarctic-act-1994-overseas-territories-order-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1030",
  "legislation_title": "The Antarctic Act 1994 (Overseas Territories) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antarctic-act-1994-overseas-territories-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "United Kingdom nationals working under the Convention",
  "text": "(1) Where a United Kingdom national—\n(a) who is a Convention official, and\n(b) who is on a vessel in any part of the area south of the Antarctic Convergence for the purpose of exercising his functions as a Convention official,\ndoes or omits to do anything, and that act or omission would have constituted an offence under the law of the Territory if it had taken place in the Territory, he shall be guilty of the like offence as if the act or omission had taken place in the Territory, and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) In subsection (1) “Convention official” means any person designated as an inspector or observer by a Member of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources under Article XXIV of the Convention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "text amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/779",
      "affecting_title": "The Antarctic Act 1994 (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "text amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/823",
      "affecting_title": "The Antarctic Act 1994 (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2015"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1030/schedule/1/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:10.412674+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."
}