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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982/schedule-3C/part-TITLE/V/crossheading-article-53",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/27",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/3C/part/TITLE/V/crossheading/article-53",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 53",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Convention, the seat of a company or other legal person or association of natural or legal persons shall be treated as its domicile. However, in order to determine that seat, the court shall apply its rules of private international law.\nIn order to determine whether a trust is domiciled in the Contracting State whose courts are seised of the matter, the court shall apply its rules of private international law.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (1.1.2001) by The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/1824), arts. 1, 8(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:12:10.218317+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."
}