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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002-commencement-no-5-wales-order-2004/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is the fifth Commencement Order made under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (“the Act”) and applies to Wales only.\nThe Order brings the following provisions of the Act into force on 7th February 2004 —\nsections 2(6) and 65, being interpretation provisions;\nregulation-making powers in 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, 64 and 98;\nonly for the purposes of making regulations, sections 4(1)(b) and (5), 57(5), 58(2) and (3), 60(2) and (4), 61(5)(c) and 62(7)(c);\nparagraphs 3 (adoption support services) and 5 (independent review mechanism) of Schedule 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/252/note",
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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."
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