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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-overseas-territories-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1823",
  "legislation_title": "The Extradition (Overseas Territories) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-overseas-territories-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes mentioned in subsection (2) below—\n(a) no offence to which section 1 of the Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978 applies shall be regarded as an offence of a political character; and\n(b) no proceedings in respect of an offence to which that section applies shall be regarded as a criminal matter of a political character or as criminal proceedings of a political character.\n(2) Those purposes are the purposes of a request for the return of a person from a listed territory to which the Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978 has been extended in accordance with extradition procedures under Part III of this Act, made by a country to which this subsection applies.\n(3) Subsection (2) above applies—\n(a) to the United Kingdom;\n(b) to a Commonwealth country in relation to which the Secretary of State has made an order under section 5 of the Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978 applying that subsection;\n(c) to any British overseas territory to which that Act has been extended; and\n(d) to Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "appl (mods) (Hong Kong)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1825",
      "affecting_title": "The Extradition (Overseas Territories) (Application to Hong Kong) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1823/schedule/2/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:52:45.810161+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."
}