{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-amendment-order-2002/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-amendment-order-2002/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2638",
  "legislation_title": "The Pitcairn (Amendment) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-amendment-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 5 of the Pitcairn Order 1970",
  "text": "Section 5 of the Pitcairn Order 1970 is amended by deleting subsection (2A) and replacing it with the following subsection:\n“(2A) Subject to the provisions of any law for the time being in force in the Islands, a court established under subsection (2) shall sit in such place in the Islands as the Governor, acting in accordance with the advice of the Chief Justice, may appoint:\nProvided that it may also sit in the United Kingdom, or in such other place as the Governor, acting in accordance with the advice of the Chief Justice, may appoint.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1434, as amended by S.I. 2000/1340."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2638/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:44:35.503015+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}