{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-act-2003/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-act-2003/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/31",
  "legislation_title": "Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-act-2003",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Extension of sections 1 to 3A to extra-territorial acts or omissions",
  "text": "(1) Sections 1 to 3 extend to any act done outside the United Kingdom by a United Kingdom national or ... United Kingdom resident.\n(1A) An offence under section 3A can be committed wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom by a person who is a United Kingdom national or a United Kingdom resident.\n(2) If an offence under this Act is committed outside the United Kingdom—\n(a) proceedings may be taken, and\n(b) the offence may for incidental purposes be treated as having been committed,\nin any place in England and Wales or Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 4(1) omitted (3.5.2015) by virtue of Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), ss. 70(1)(b), 88(4) (with s. 86(10))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(1A) inserted (3.5.2015) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), ss. 72(3)(b), 88(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 4 heading substituted (3.5.2015) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), ss. 72(3)(a), 88(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 heading inserted (3.5.2015) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), ss. 72(3)(a), 88(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 3.3.2004 by S.I. 2004/286, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/31/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:02.022803+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."
}