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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-act-1976/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/36",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-act-1976",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the enactments having effect in England and Wales in relation to adoption.\n[22nd July 1976]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to amend Act conferred (5.7.1994) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37, SIF 83:1), ss. 30(9)(10), 39(3), 43(2); S.I. 1994/1776, art. 2(1)"
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      "label": "C2",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(1), Sch. 12 para. 23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts."
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (1.11.1994) by S.I. 1994/2767, reg. 2Act: modified (prosp.) by 1999 c. 18, ss. 17, 18(3)"
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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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