{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2006/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2006/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1913",
  "legislation_title": "The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes a new Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The new Constitution sets out a modernised Chapter on fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual. It provides for a Governor as Her Majesty’s representative in the Islands. It provides for a House of Assembly composed of elected and appointed members, and for a Cabinet and Ministers appointed from among the members of the House. It also provides for the judiciary, the public service and a Complaints Commissioner for the Islands.\nThe Order revokes the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 1988 (as amended), to which the current Constitution is scheduled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1913/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:25:42.847211+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."
}