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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/section-139",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/section-139.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/33",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999",
  "path": "section/139",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In the 1971 Act, after section 28K, insert—\n“ Interpretation of Part III.\n28L In this Part, “premises” and “items subject to legal privilege” have the same meaning—\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, as in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, as in the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989; and\n(c) in relation to Scotland, as in section 33 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995.”\n(2) In the 1971 Act, in Schedule 2, after paragraph 25D insert—\n“\n25E Section 28L applies for the purposes of this Schedule as it applies for the purposes of Part III.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1995 c. 39."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/33/section/139",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:34.566084+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."
}