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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/924",
  "legislation_title": "The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This statutory instrument has been printed in substitution of the SI of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nREGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 24th March 2005\nLaid before Parliament 29th March 2005\nComing into force 30th December 2005\nThe Registrar General in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 51(1) and (2) and 67(1), (2), (5) and (6) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 3(2) to (4) of Schedule 1 to, the Adoption Act 1976 and sections 78(3), 79(5), (7) and (8), 80(2), (4) and (6), 142(7) and 144(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 3(3) to (5) of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002, as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993, with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 38. In sections 78(3) and 79(9) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Act “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Registrar General with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and in section 80 “regulations” means regulations made by the Registrar General with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and “prescribed” means prescribed by such regulations (see section 81(4) of the Act)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 38."
    }
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  "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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