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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-application-to-colonies-order-1954/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-application-to-colonies-order-1954/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1954/636",
  "legislation_title": "The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Order 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-application-to-colonies-order-1954",
  "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For sub-section (1) of section 17 there shall be substituted the following sub-section:—\n“(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—\n“Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the Territory and any reference to the Attorney General shall be construed as including a reference to any person who is for the time being performing the functions of the Office of Attorney General.\n“court of the Territory” means a court exercising jurisdiction in the Territory under the law of the Territory otherwise than by virtue of section 2 of this Act;\n“forces”, in relation to a country, means any of the naval, military or air forces of that country;\n“Governor”, means the person for the time being administering the government of the Territory;\n“law of the Territory” means law in force in the Territory or in any part thereof;\n“legislature of the Territory” includes any authority having power to make laws for the Territory; ”\n(2) In sub-section (5) of section 17 the words ‘and in this subsection the expression “enactment” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland’ shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (prosp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3922",
      "affecting_title": "The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Bermuda) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1954/636/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:37:36.570078+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."
}