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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-10-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2005/article-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "30th December 2005 is the day appointed by the Secretary of State for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2002 Act—\n(a) paragraphs 1, 2, 6 to 8, 17 to 22 of Schedule 4 and section 139(2) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs; and\n(b) section 139(3) and Schedule 5 except in so far as they as the relate to any of the following provisions—\n(i) sections 50, 52, 53(2) and 65(1) of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978;\n(ii) section 40(2)(a) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984; and\n(iii) section 14 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1999 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2897/article/2",
    "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."
}