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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-53",
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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/53",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "The Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22))",
  "text": "In Article 2(2) (interpretation), in the definition of “prescribed”, for “Articles 54” there is substituted “ Articles 53(3B) and (3D), 54 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 53 in force at 3.2.2003 by S.I. 2003/288, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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/53",
    "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."
}