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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986-designated-countries-and-territories-order-1990/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986-designated-countries-and-territories-order-1990/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1199",
  "legislation_title": "The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986-designated-countries-and-territories-order-1990",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Proof of orders and judgment of court in a designated country",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of sections 26 and 26A of the Act, and of the other provisions of the Act as applied under article 3(2) of this Order—\n(a) any order made or judgment given by a court in a designated country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as the case may be, to have been signed by that person; and\n(b) a document, duly authenticated, which purports to be a copy of any order made or judgment given by a court in a designated country shall be deemed without further proof to be a true copy.\n(2) A document purporting to be a copy of any order made or judgment given by a court in a designated country is duly authenticated for the purpose of paragraph (1)(b) above if it purports to be certified by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court in question or by or on behalf of the appropriate authority of the designated country.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1199/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:19:25.886243+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."
}