{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-colonies-order-1954/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1954/637",
  "legislation_title": "The Visiting Forces (Designation) (Colonies) Order 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-colonies-order-1954",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order, 1954, shall extend to each of the territories mentioned in the Schedule to this Order:\nProvided that for the purposes of its extension to any of those territories the Visiting Forces (Designation) Order, 1954, shall have effect as if—\n(a) in section 1 thereof for the words “Each of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order” there were substituted the words “The United States of America” ;\n(b) the Schedule thereto was omitted; and\n(c) the reference in section 1 thereof to the Visiting Forces Act, 1952, was a reference to that Act as it extends to that territory by virtue of the Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) Order, 1954.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "p. 2460 above."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1954/637/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:37:35.734639+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."
}