{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-designated-countries-and-territories-amendment-order-1994/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1639",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-designated-countries-and-territories-amendment-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In article 2 of the principal Order for the definition of “appropriate authority of a designated country” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““appropriate authority of a designated country” means—\n(a) the authority specified opposite that country in Schedule 1 to this Order, or\n(b) where no authority is so specified, the authority appearing to the court to be the appropriate authority of that country for the purposes of this Order;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1639/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:54.219829+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."
}