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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-5-wales-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2004/252",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Commencement No. 5) (Wales) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-5-wales-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed Day",
  "text": "7th February 2004 is the appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act—\n(a) section 2(6) (basic definitions);\n(b) sections 4(6) and (7), 9 to 11, 12(1) to (3), 27(3), 53(1) to (3), 54, 56(1) and (3), 57(6), 59, 63 to 65 and 98;\n(c) for the purposes of making regulations, sections 4(1)(b) and (5), 57(5), 58(2) and (3), 60(2) and (4) and 61(5)(c) and 62(7)(c);\n(d) paragraphs 3 and 5 of Schedule 4, and section 139(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/252/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:31.917136+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."
}