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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/41",
  "legislation_title": "Extradition Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision about extradition.\n[20th November 2003]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (1.1.2004) by The Extradition Act 2003 (Multiple Offences) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/3150), art. 2(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) (Overseas territories) (10.11.2016) by The Extradition Act 2003 (Overseas Territories) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/990), arts. 1(2), 3(1), Schs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) (Overseas territories) (10.11.2016) by The Extradition Act 2003 (Overseas Territories) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/990), arts. 1(1), 3(2), Schs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified (16.3.2020) by The Extradition Act 2003 (Amendments to Designations) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/265), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (13.3.2024) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Application and Modification of the Extradition Act 2003) (England and Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/175), arts. 1(3), 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/41/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:50.673746+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."
}