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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1526",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration (Entries of Overseas Births and Deaths) Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-entries-of-overseas-births-and-deaths-order-1982",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Instructions issued by the Foreign Office to Her Majesty's Consuls on the 7th November 1849.\nInstructions issued by the Foreign Office in the form of handbooks for Consular Officers between the 7th November 1849 and the 1st November 1930.\nMemorandum of instructions issued on the 6th April 1950 by the Commonwealth Relations Office concerning the registration of births and deaths by United Kingdom High Commissioners' Offices at New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Karachi, Lahore, Dacca and Peshawar.\nMemorandum of instructions issued by the Commonwealth Relations Office concerning the registration of births by the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ceylon, commencing on the 1st January 1957.\nMemorandum of instructions issued by the Commonwealth Relations Office concerning the registration of births by the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ghana, commencing on the 1st April 1959.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/522",
      "affecting_title": "The Registration (Entries of Overseas Births and Deaths) (Amendment) Order 2018"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1526/schedule/2/part/II",
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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."
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