{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambia-independence-order-1965/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambia-independence-order-1965/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1965/135",
  "legislation_title": "The Gambia Independence Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gambia-independence-order-1965",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Emergency Powers Orders in Council 1939 to 1964",
  "text": "The Emergency Powers Orders in Council 1939 to 1964 shall cease to have effect as part of the law of The Gambia on 18th August 1966 or such earlier date as Parliament may prescribe:\nProvided that sections 6(2)(d) and 8 of the Emergency Powers Order in Council 1939 shall cease to have effect as part of the law of The Gambia as from the commencement of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1952 I, at p. 621."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1956/731, 1963/88, 1633, 1964/267, 1199 (1956 I, p. 512; 1963 I, p. 105; III, p. 3084; 1964 I, p. 467; II, p. 2781."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/135/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:00:28.120544+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."
}