{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/global-irregular-migration-and-trafficking-in-persons-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/global-irregular-migration-and-trafficking-in-persons-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1092",
  "legislation_title": "The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions (Overseas Territories) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/global-irregular-migration-and-trafficking-in-persons-sanctions-overseas-territories-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After regulation 44 (jurisdiction to try offences), insert—\n“Consent to prosecutions\n44A (1) Proceedings for an offence under these Regulations must not be instituted in the Territory except with the consent of the principal public officer of the Territory responsible for criminal prosecutions.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) prevents—\n(a) the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of an offence under these Regulations, or\n(b) the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 31 in force at 16.10.2025, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1092/schedule/2/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:45.487561+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."
}