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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-summit-immunities-and-privileges-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/222",
  "legislation_title": "The London Summit (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-summit-immunities-and-privileges-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order, there are hereby specified as the representatives of sovereign Powers (other than the United Kingdom) at the London Summit conference, the persons who are notified to the Secretary of State by the sovereign Power concerned as members of its delegation having ministerial or other high official rank, and who are accepted as such by the Secretary of State.\nExcept in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Governments of the sovereign Powers whom they represent, and without prejudice to any privilege or immunity to which they are otherwise entitled, the persons specified in paragraph (1) shall enjoy while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from the place of meeting the like immunity from suit and legal process, including immunity from personal arrest or detention as is accorded to the head of a diplomatic mission under the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c.81."
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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."
}