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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-trusts-act-1987-overseas-territories-order-1989/schedule-2/part-2/crossheading-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/673",
  "legislation_title": "The Recognition of Trusts Act 1987 (Overseas Territories) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-trusts-act-1987-overseas-territories-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/2/crossheading/2",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "ARTICLE 7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where no applicable law has been chosen, a trust shall be governed by the law with which it is most closely connected.\nIn ascertaining the law with which a trust is most closely connected reference shall be made in particular to —\n(a) the place of administration of the trust designated by the settlor;\n(b) the situs of the assets of the trust;\n(c) the place of residence or business of the trustee;\n(d) the objects of the trust and the places where they are to be fulfilled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2983",
      "affecting_title": "The Overseas Territories (Change of Name) (No. 10) Order 2011"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:25.104761+00:00"
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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."
}