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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-variation-of-leave-order-2016/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/948",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Variation of Leave) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-variation-of-leave-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“competent authority” means a person who is a competent authority of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Trafficking Convention;\n“overseas domestic worker” means a person who, under the immigration rules, has leave to enter the United Kingdom as—\n(a) a domestic worker in a private household, or\n(b) a private servant in a diplomatic household;\n“Trafficking Convention” means the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (agreed at Warsaw on 16 May 2005);\n“victim of modern slavery” means a victim of—\n(a) trafficking in human beings, which has the same meaning as provided in article 4 of the Trafficking Convention; or\n(b) slavery, servitude, or forced or compulsory labour, which have the same meanings as they have for the purposes of article 4 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (agreed by the Council of Europe at Rome on 4 November 1950).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "CETS No.197."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "CETS No.005."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/948/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:46.035291+00:00"
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  "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."
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