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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-1990-amendment-order-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2596",
  "legislation_title": "The European Convention on Extradition Order 1990 (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-1990-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the European Convention on Extradition Order 1990, as regards its operation between the United Kingdom and those States listed in Schedule 2 to the Order, so that its terms are qualified by the terms of the Agreement between Member States of the European Communities on the Simplification and Modernisation of Methods of Transmitting Extradition Requests (“the Agreement”). The States listed in Schedule 2 have ratified the Agreement and made a declaration (under Article 5, paragraph 3) that they will apply the Agreement in their relations with other Member States who make the same declaration.\nThe terms of the Agreement are set out in Schedule 1 to the Order. The Order will come into force on a date to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes on which the Agreement enters into force for the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2596/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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