{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-constitution-order-2007/article-115",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1678",
  "legislation_title": "The Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-constitution-order-2007",
  "path": "article/115",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "115",
  "heading": "Existing laws",
  "text": "(1) Subject to this section, the existing laws shall have effect on and after the appointed day as if they had been made in pursuance of or in consistency with this Constitution and shall be construed with such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with this Constitution.\n(2) The Legislature may by law make such amendments to any existing law as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for bringing that law into conformity with this Constitution or otherwise for giving effect to this Constitution; and any existing law shall have effect accordingly from such day, not being earlier than the appointed day, as may be specified in the law made by the Legislature.\n(3) In this section “existing laws” means laws and instruments (other than Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instruments made under them) having effect as part of the law of the Virgin Islands immediately before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1678/article/115",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:51:13.761484+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."
}