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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suppression-of-terrorism-act-1978-hong-kong-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suppression-of-terrorism-act-1978-hong-kong-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2045",
  "legislation_title": "The Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978 (Hong Kong) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suppression-of-terrorism-act-1978-hong-kong-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“act” includes omission;\n“convention country” means a country for the time being designated in an order made under this Act as it applies in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State as a party to the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism signed at Strasbourg on the 27th January 1977;\n“country” includes any territory;\n“United Kingdom national” means a British citizen, British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen or a British National (Overseas).\n(2) Except so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment is a reference to it as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.\n(3) For the purposes of this Act sections 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 48, 55 and 56 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, sections 1 and 20 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, sections 2 and 3 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883, sections 16 and 17 of the Firearms Act 1968 and section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971, if not already in force in the Territory, shall be deemed to be in force as they are in force in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2045/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:16:46.295920+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."
}