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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-139",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-139.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/38",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002",
  "path": "section/139",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "Amendments, transitional and transitory provisions, savings and repeals",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 3 (minor and consequential amendments) is to have effect.\n(2) Schedule 4 (transitional and transitory provisions and savings) is to have effect.\n(3) The enactments set out in Schedule 5 are repealed to the extent specified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 139 in force at 30.12.2005 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2005/643, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 3.2.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/288, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 25.2.2003 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(1)(b)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 30.4.2003 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(4)(b)-(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 28.11.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/3079, art. 2(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 1.12.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/3079, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 7.12.2004 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/3203, art. 2(1)(m)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 30.12.2005 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 3(l) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I9",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 30.12.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(o) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I10",
      "text": "S. 139(1) in force at 30.12.2005 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2005/3112, art. 2(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I11",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 3.2.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/288, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I12",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 25.2.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I13",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 10.3.2003 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I14",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 1.4.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I15",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 1.6.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I16",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 6.10.2003 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2003/366, art. 2(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I17",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 1.12.2003 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2003/3079, art. 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I18",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 7.2.2004 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2004/252, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I19",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 1.4.2004 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2003/3079, art. 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I20",
      "text": "S. 139(2) in force at 30.12.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2897, art. 2(a) (with arts. 3-16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I21",
      "text": "S. 139(3) in force at 28.11.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/3079, art. 2(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I22",
      "text": "S. 139(3) in force at 30.12.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2897, art. 2(b) (with arts. 3-16)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/38/section/139",
    "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."
}