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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-act-1968/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-act-1968/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/18",
  "legislation_title": "Consular Relations Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-act-1968",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Short title, interpretation, commencement and repeal.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Consular Relations Act 1968.\n(2) For the purposes of section 4, 5 or 6 of this Act a ship, and for the purposes of section 4 an aircraft, shall be treated as belonging to a State in such circumstances as may be specified by an Order in Council under that section; and different circumstances may be so specified with respect to different States and different classes of ship or aircraft.\n(3) This Act, except sections 7 to 11, shall not come into force until such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint.\n(4) In the Consular Conventions Act 1949, section 4, in section 6(1) the words “or section 4” and, in section 7(2), paragraph (c) are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1949 c. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "1.1.1971 appointed under s. 16(3) by S.I. 1970/1684"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "The text of s. 16(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/18/section/16",
    "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."
}