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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-41",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/38",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/41",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "The Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20)",
  "text": "In section 28 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (nearest relative of minor under guardianship, etc.), in subsection (3), after “ “guardian”” there is inserted “ includes a special guardian (within the meaning of the Children Act 1989), but ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 41 in force at 30.12.2005 by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(o) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/47",
      "affecting_title": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/38/schedule/3/paragraph/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:55.944329+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."
}