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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-secretariat-act-1966/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/10",
  "legislation_title": "Commonwealth Secretariat Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-secretariat-act-1966",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Every senior officer of the Commonwealth Secretariat, who is a citizen of a country mentioned in Schedule 3 to the British Nationality Act 1981, and any member of his family forming part of his household, other than a member who is a citizen only of the United Kingdom and Colonies, shall, if permanently resident outside the United Kingdom, have the like privileges and immunities as are accorded by law to a diplomatic agent and the members of his family forming part of his household, ....\n(2) In accordance with the foregoing sub-paragraph, service as a senior officer falling within that sub-paragraph shall not be treated as employment in respect of which contributions or premiums are payable under the enactments relating to . . . . . . social security, but the foregoing provision shall not be construed as rendering a person liable to any contribution or premium which he would not be required to pay if service as aforesaid were not so treated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 5(1) repealed (7.6.2005) by International Organisations Act 2005 (c. 20), ss. 3(a), 11(3), Schs."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Social Security Act 1973 (c. 38), Sch. 27 para. 64"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    }
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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."
}