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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-immunity-act-1978/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-immunity-act-1978/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/33",
  "legislation_title": "State Immunity Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-immunity-act-1978",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision with respect to proceedings in the United Kingdom by or against other States; to provide for the effect of judgments given against the United Kingdom in the courts of States parties to the European Convention on State Immunity; to make new provision with respect to the immunities and privileges of heads of State; and for connected purposes.\n[20th July 1978]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1979/458, art. 2, Schs. 1, 2 (as amended (30.9.2020) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/942), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 7)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/33/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:22:51.440596+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."
}