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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-order-1954/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-order-1954/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1954/634",
  "legislation_title": "The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-order-1954",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Section 1 (1) of the Visiting Forces Act, 1952, provides that references in the Act to country to which a provision of the Act applies are references to Commonwealth countries and to any country designated for the purposes of that provision by Order in Council. This Order designates Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States of America.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1954/634/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:37:37.979396+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."
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