{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-courts-overseas-jurisdiction-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-courts-overseas-jurisdiction-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2399",
  "legislation_title": "The Falkland Islands Courts (Overseas Jurisdiction) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-courts-overseas-jurisdiction-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the contrary intention appears—\n“the Constitution” means the Constitution of the Falkland Islands set out in Schedule 1 to the Falkland Islands Constitution Order 1985;\n“Court of Appeal” means the Court of Appeal of the Falkland Islands established by section 78 of the Constitution;\n“decision” includes judgment, sentence or order;\n“the Magistrate’s Court” means the Magistrate’s Court of the Falkland Islands established by the Administration of Justice Ordinance as amended by the Administration of Justice (Amendment) Ordinance 1970;\n“the Supreme Court” means the Supreme Court of the Falkland Islands established by section 77 of the Constitution;\n“Territory” means, as the context requires, the British Antarctic Territory or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands;\n“the relevant Territory” means, in relation to proceedings in respect of any particular matter, the Territory under the law of which that matter arises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/444."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Laws of the Falkland Islands, Cap 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Falkland Islands Ordinance No 1 of 1970 (Falkland Islands Gazette Vol. LXXIX p. 87)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2399/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:49.748370+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."
}