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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952/section-19",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/67",
  "legislation_title": "Visiting Forces Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Visiting Forces Act, 1952.\n(2) This Act shall come into operation on such date as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, and different dates may be appointed in relation to different provisions of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 19(2) fully exercised: S.I. 1954/633 (1954 II, p. 2459)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/67/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:10.434610+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}