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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-order-2018/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-order-2018/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/836",
  "legislation_title": "The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-designation-order-2018",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia concluded a Framework Arrangement on Military and Security Co-operation in September 2017. The Agreement contains provisions on reciprocal concurrent jurisdictional arrangements. In order to effect those provisions, it is necessary to designate Saudi Arabia as a country to which the Visiting Forces Act 1952 applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/836/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:39.000280+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."
}