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  "title": "The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 1956",
  "short_title": "Visiting Forces (Designation) 1956",
  "long_title": "Section 1 (1) of the Visiting Forces Act, 1952, provides that references in the Act to a 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 Luxembourg, Turkey, Greece, Denmark, Portugal and Italy.",
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