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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-privileges-british-nationals-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/670",
  "legislation_title": "The Diplomatic Privileges (British Nationals) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-privileges-british-nationals-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order revokes and replaces the Diplomatic Privileges (Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies) Order 1964 and subsequent amending Orders.\nArticle 38 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, set out in Schedule 1 to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964, provides for the privileges and immunities of persons who are members of diplomatic missions or the private servants of such members and who are, in either case, nationals of the receiving State. Under section 2(2) of the Act, as construed in the light of section 51(3) (a) (ii) of the British Nationality Act 1981, “national of the receiving State” means a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen or a British National (Overseas). Section 2(6) of the 1964 Act gives power to Her Majesty by Order in Council to specify the extent to which privileges and immunities or additional privileges and immunities are to be accorded to such persons.\nThis Order provides that members of a diplomatic mission of a Commonwealth country and of the Republic of Ireland and their private servants who are both nationals of that Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland, as the case may be, and British nationals, shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities to which they would have been entitled under the 1964 Act if they had not been British nationals.\nThe Order brings up to the date the list of Commonwealth countries to which the 1964 Order applied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/670/note",
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  "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."
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