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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52",
  "legislation_title": "Geneva Conventions Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/geneva-conventions-act-1957",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable effect to be given to certain international conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and for purposes connected therewith.\n[31st July 1957]\nWhereas, with a view to the ratification by Her Majesty of the conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act, it is expedient to make certain amendments in the law:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) (15.1.2011) by Geneva Conventions (Overseas Territories) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2963), arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1-3"
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      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) (15.1.2011) by Geneva Conventions Act (Isle of Man) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2964), art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
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      "text": "Act extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) by SI 1966/948 (as amended) (15.1.2011) by The Geneva Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2965), art. 5, Sch. 2"
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
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