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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-operations-service-personnel-and-veterans-act-2021/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/23",
  "legislation_title": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-operations-service-personnel-and-veterans-act-2021",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Restrictions on time limits to bring actions: England and Wales",
  "text": "(1) Part 1 of Schedule 2 amends the Limitation Act 1980—\n(a) to limit the court's discretion to disapply time limits for actions in respect of personal injuries or death which relate to overseas operations of the armed forces, and\n(b) to specify additional factors to which a court must have regard in exercising that discretion.\n(2) Part 2 of Schedule 2 amends the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 to modify the effect of foreign limitation law (where such law applies by reason of that Act) in respect of actions which relate to overseas operations of the armed forces.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 30.6.2021 by S.I. 2021/678, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/23/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:27.436494+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."
}