{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-and-other-privileges-act-1971/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-and-other-privileges-act-1971/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/64",
  "legislation_title": "Diplomatic and Other Privileges Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-and-other-privileges-act-1971",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Privileges and immunities in connection with Commonwealth and Irishpost of a consular nature.",
  "text": "(1) In the Consular Relations Act 1968 there shall besubstituted for section 12 the provisions set out in the Schedule tothis Act (which reproduce, with minor extensions and modifications,the present effect of the Diplomatic Immunities(Commonwealth Countries and Republic of Ireland) Act 1952 as amendedby that section).\n(2) Accordingly, from the coming into force of an Order in Council made byvirtue of the new section 12, there are hereby repealed—\n(a) the Diplomatic Immunities (Commonwealth Countries and Republic ofIreland) Act 1952; and\n(b) in section 8(1)(b) of the Consular Relations Act 1968 the words from “or section 1(2)” onwards.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1952 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of Ss. 3, 4 and Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"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/1971/64/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:38.838853+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."
}