{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-10-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2005/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2897",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Commencement No. 10 Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-10-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Pending applications for freeing orders",
  "text": "Nothing in the 2002 Act affects any application for an order under section 18 of the 1976 Act (freeing for adoption) where—\n(a) the application has been made and has not been disposed of immediately before the appointed day; and\n(b) the child in relation to whom the application is made is not immediately before the appointed day placed for adoption by the adoption agency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2897/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:39.000847+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."
}