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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-nations-international-tribunals-former-yugoslavia-and-rwanda-amendment-order-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/412",
  "legislation_title": "The United Nations (International Tribunals) (Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-nations-international-tribunals-former-yugoslavia-and-rwanda-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, made under the United Nations Act 1946, makes provision to implement a resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations which established a pool of ad litem judges in the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and increased the number of judges in the Appeals Chambers of the two International Tribunals.\nThe Order further amends the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Former Yugoslavia) Order 1996 to reflect the decision of the Security Council of the United Nations in Resolution 1329 (2000) to amend the Statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 established by Resolution 827 (1993) of the Security Council of the United Nations.\nThe Order also further amends the United Nations (International Tribunal) (Rwanda) (Order) 1996 to reflect the decision of the Security Council of the United Nations in Resolution 1329 (2000) to amend the Statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan citizens responsible for genocide and other such violations committed in the territory of neighbouring states, between 1st January 1994 and 31st December 1994, established by Resolution 955 (1994) of the Security Council of the United Nations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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