{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993/schedule-2/part-VI/crossheading-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993/schedule-2/part-VI/crossheading-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1813",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/VI/crossheading/1",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "ARTICLE 38",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 11 and 30(2), when an offence is committed in the territory of one of the two States, including that lying within the Fixed Link up to its frontier, that State shall have jurisdiction.\n(2) (a) Within the Fixed Link, each State shall have jurisdiction and shall apply its own law:\n(i) when it cannot be ascertained with certainty where an offence has been committed; or\n(ii) when an offence committed in the territory of one State is related to an offence committed on the territory of the other State; or\n(iii) when an offence has begun in or has been continued into its own territory;\n(b) however, the State which first receives the person suspected of having committed such an offence (in this Article referred to as “the receiving State”) shall have priority in exercising jurisdiction.\n(3) When the receiving State decides not to exercise its priority jurisdiction under paragraph (2) of this Article it shall inform the other State without delay.If the latter decides not to exercise its jurisdiction, the receiving State shall be obliged to exercise its jurisdiction in accordance with its own national law.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1813/schedule/2/part/VI/crossheading/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:53:17.350099+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."
}