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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-conventions-czechoslovak-socialist-republic-order-1976/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Consular Conventions (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-conventions-czechoslovak-socialist-republic-order-1976",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES\nMade 30th July 1976\nLaid before Parliament 9th August 1976\nComing into Operation On a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 30th day of July 1976\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas by section 6(1) of the Consular Conventions Act 1949 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) it is enacted that Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that sections 1 and 2 of the Act (which provide for the exercise by consular officers of certain powers in relation to the property of deceased persons) shall apply to any foreign State specified in the Order, being a State with which a Consular Convention providing for matters for which provision is made by those sections has been concluded by Her Majesty:\nAnd whereas such a Consular Convention between Her Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was signed at Prague on the 3rd of April 1975 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”) and will enter into force on the thirtieth day after the exchange of instruments of ratification.\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by the Act or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, 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",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd. 6096."
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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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