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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-allowance-scotland-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3257",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Allowance (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-allowance-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS\nMade 18th December 1996\nLaid before Parliament 31st December 1996\nComing into force 1st April 1998\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 9(2) and (3) and 51A of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 28; section 9(2) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36); section 51A was inserted by paragraph 25 of Schedule 2 to that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3257/introduction",
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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."
}