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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023-sovereign-base-areas-order-2024/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/993",
  "legislation_title": "The National Security Act 2023 (Sovereign Base Areas) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023-sovereign-base-areas-order-2024",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Saving provision",
  "text": "Notwithstanding the commencement of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 18 to the Act, the following enactments will continue to have effect in relation to conduct taking place, including offences suspected to have been committed, before 23rd October 2024—\n(a) Official Secrets Act 1911;\n(b) Official Secrets Act 1920;\n(c) Official Secrets Act 1939.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1911 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1920 c. 75."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1939 c. 121."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/993/article/4",
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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."
}