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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-act-1994-designated-countries-and-territories-order-1996/schedule-3/paragraph-63",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2880",
  "legislation_title": "The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-act-1994-designated-countries-and-territories-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/63",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“constable” includes a person commissioned by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise under section 6(3) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;\n“defendant” means a person against whom an external confiscation order has been made, or a person against whom proceedings which may result in an external confiscation being made have been, or are to be, instituted in a court in a designated country.\n(2) In this Act references to anything received in connection with drug trafficking include a reference to anything received both in that connection and in some other connection, and whether received before or after the commencement of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1996 and whether received in connection with drug trafficking carried on by the recipient or some other person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2980",
      "affecting_title": "The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1997"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2880/schedule/3/paragraph/63",
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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."
}