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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-2-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-2-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "3rd February 2003 is the appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act—\n(a) paragraph 53 of Schedule 3 to the Act (the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22))) and section 139(1) of the Act in so far as it relates to that paragraph;\n(b) sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the Act (regulation of adoption agencies) and section 139(2) of the Act in so far as it relates to that sub-paragraph.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/288/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:18.211603+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."
}