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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-overseas-territories-hong-kong-order-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1824",
  "legislation_title": "The Extradition (Overseas Territories) (Hong Kong) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-overseas-territories-hong-kong-order-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends section 32 of the Extradition Act 1989 (which provides for the application of provisions of that Act relating to return to Commonwealth countries to any British overseas territory) to enable provision to be made for extradition to continue as between specified British overseas territories and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China following the resumption of sovereignty over Hong Kong by the People’s Republic of China as from 1st July 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1824/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:52:44.836781+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."
}