{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-act-1968/schedule-1/crossheading-article-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-act-1968/schedule-1/crossheading-article-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/18",
  "legislation_title": "Consular Relations Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-act-1968",
  "path": "schedule/1/crossheading/article-1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of the present Convention, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereunder assigned to them:\n(a) “consular post” means any consulate-general, consulate, vice-consulate or consular agency;\n(b) “consular district” means the area assigned to a consular post for the exercise of consular functions;\n(c) “head of consular post” means the person charged with the duty of acting in that capacity;\n(d) “consular officer” means any person, including the head of a consular post, entrusted in that capacity with the exercise of consular functions;\n(e) “consular employee” means any person employed in the administrative or technical service of a consular post;\n(f) “member of the service staff” means any person employed in the domestic service of a consular post;\n(g) “members of the consular post” means consular officers, consular employees and members of the service staff;\n(h) “members of the consular staff” means consular officers, other than the head of a consular post, consular employees and members of the service staff;\n(i) “member of the private staff” means a person who is employed exclusively in the private service of a member of the consular post;\n(j) “consular premises” means the buildings or parts of buildings and the land ancillary thereto, irrespective of ownership, used exclusively for the purposes of the consular post;\n(k) “consular archives” includes all the papers, documents, correspondence, books, films, tapes and registers of the consular post, together with the ciphers and codes, the card-indexes and any article of furniture intended for their protection or safekeeping.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/18/schedule/1/crossheading/article-1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:31.966904+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."
}