{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-designated-countries-of-destination-and-designated-safe-third-countries-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-designated-countries-of-destination-and-designated-safe-third-countries-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2671",
  "legislation_title": "The Asylum (Designated Countries of Destination and Designated Safe Third Countries) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-designated-countries-of-destination-and-designated-safe-third-countries-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "IMMIGRATION\nMade 19th October 1996\nComing into force 20th October 1996\nWhereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 2 to the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 and by section 2(3) of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 23. Paragraph 5 is substituted by the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2671/introduction",
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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."
}