{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-colonial-probates-act-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1572",
  "legislation_title": "The Hong Kong (Colonial Probates Act) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hong-kong-colonial-probates-act-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "There shall be inserted after section 1 of the Colonial Probates Act 1892 (application of Act by Order in Council) the following provision:\n“1A This Act shall apply in relation to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China as it applied, immediately before 1st July 1997, to Hong Kong; and the Colonial Probates Act Application Order 1965 shall, in relation to that Region, continue in force accordingly.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "55 and 56 Vict. c.6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1572/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:42.639015+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."
}