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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-constitution-order-2008/schedule/paragraph-56",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2846",
  "legislation_title": "The Falkland Islands Constitution Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-constitution-order-2008",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/56",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Executive authority",
  "text": "(1) The executive authority of the Falkland Islands is vested in Her Majesty.\n(2) Subject to this Constitution, the executive authority of the Falkland Islands shall be exercised on behalf of Her Majesty by the Governor, either directly or through officers subordinate to him or her.\n(3) Nothing in this section shall preclude persons or authorities other than the Governor from exercising such functions as are or may be conferred on them by any law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/181",
      "affecting_title": "The Emergency Powers (Overseas Territories) Order 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/780",
      "affecting_title": "The Overseas Territories (Constitutional Modifications) Order 2020"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2846/schedule/paragraph/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:38.073834+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."
}