{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internationally-protected-persons-act-1978-overseas-territories-order-1979/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/456",
  "legislation_title": "The Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 (Overseas Territories) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internationally-protected-persons-act-1978-overseas-territories-order-1979",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Proceedings for an offence which would not be an offence apart from the preceding section shall not be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the Attorney General of the Territory.\n(2) In this section the expression “Attorney General” includes the Solicitor General, and if neither of such offices exist, the expression means that officer whose functions include the general control of public prosecutions.\n(3) In the Schedule to the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (which specifies the offences which are offences against the person and against the property for the purposes of section 3 of that Act) as extended to the Territory—\n(a) at the end of paragraph 1 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(c) an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) of section 1 of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 and any of the following offences against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely, an offence of kidnapping, an offence of false imprisonment and an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life.”;\n(b) at the end of paragraph 3 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(i) an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to cause serious injury to property in connection with such an attack as is mentioned in 1(1)(b) of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/456/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:19:17.102661+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."
}