{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sierra-leone-united-nations-sanctions-dependent-territories-order-1997/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sierra-leone-united-nations-sanctions-dependent-territories-order-1997/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2593",
  "legislation_title": "The Sierra Leone (United Nations Sanctions) (Dependent Territories) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sierra-leone-united-nations-sanctions-dependent-territories-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, operation and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Sierra Leone (United Nations Sanctions) (Dependent Territories) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st November 1997.\n(2) If, after the making of this Order, the Security Council of the United Nations takes a decision which has the effect of cancelling or suspending the operation of the resolution adopted by it on 8th October 1997, this Order shall cease to have effect or its operation shall be suspended, as the case may be, in accordance with that decision; and particulars of that decision shall be published by the Governor in a notice in the official Gazette of the Territory.\n(3) (a) This Order shall extend to the territories listed in Schedule 3 to this Order.\n(b) In the application of this Order to any of the said territories the expression “the Territory” in this Order means that territory.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2593/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:44:03.873533+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."
}