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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-12-order-2014/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1961",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-12-order-2014",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "25th July 2014 is the appointed day for the coming into force of sections 125 to 128, 129 and 131 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 125, 128 and 129 of the Act were amended by section 7 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Children and Families Act 2014 (c.6) (“the 2014 Act”) and sections 126, 127 and 131 were amended by Schedule 1 to the 2014 Act."
    }
  ],
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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."
}