{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction and procedure in respect of certain indictable offences committed in foreign countries.",
  "text": "(1) Any British subject employed under His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom in the service of the Crown who commits, in a foreign country, when acting or purporting to act in the course of his employment, any offence which, if committed in England, would be punishable on indictment, shall be guilty of an offence . . . , and subject to the same punishment, as if the offence had been committed in England.\n2), (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 31(2)(3) repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. III"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:38.347332+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."
}