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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brazil-extradition-order-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1176",
  "legislation_title": "The Brazil (Extradition) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brazil-extradition-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EXTRADITION\nMade 8th April 1997\nLaid before Parliament 14th May 1997\nComing into force on a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes\nAt the Court at Windsor Castle, the 8th day of April 1997\nPresent,\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas a Treaty was concluded on 18th July 1995 between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the reciprocal extradition of offenders, the terms of which are set out in the Schedule to this Order:\nAnd whereas section 4(1) of the Extradition Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”) provides that where general extradition arrangements have been made, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council reciting or embodying their terms, direct that the 1989 Act, so far as it relates to extradition procedures under Part III of that Act, shall apply as between the United Kingdom and the foreign State or any foreign State with which they have been made, subject to the limitations, restrictions, exceptions and qualifications in the Order:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 4(1) of the Extradition Act 1989, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 33."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1176/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."
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