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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-overseas-territories-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-35",
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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/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“appropriate authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 6(9) above;\n“authority to proceed” has the meaning assigned to it by section 7(1) above;\n“constable” includes an officer of the police force of the territory;\n“court of committal” has the meaning assigned to it by section 9(1) above;\n“designated Commonwealth country” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5(1) above;\n“extradition crime” is to be construed in accordance with section 2 above;\n“extradition request” has the meaning assigned to it by section 7(1) above, but in section 12(5) above includes a request or requisition made by some person recognised by the Governor of the relevant listed territory as the consular representative of a foreign State (or as the governor of a colony or dependency of a foreign State) for the surrender of a person to that State, colony or dependency under the law in that behalf for the time being in force in that listed territory;\n“Governor” means the person for the time being lawfully administering the government of the territory;\n“listed territory” means a territory listed in Schedule 1 to this Order and references to a relevant listed territory are references to a listed territory from which the return of a person is sought or (as the case may be) to which a person has been returned;\n“provisional warrant” has the meaning assigned to it by section 8(1) above;\n“the United Kingdom” includes the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n(2) For the purposes of this Act a person convicted in his absence in a designated Commonwealth country, Ireland or a British overseas territory shall be treated as a person accused of the offence of which he is convicted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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/35",
    "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."
}