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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-register-search-and-inspection-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/978",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act Register (Search and Inspection) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-register-search-and-inspection-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Children And Young Persons, England\nMade 11th October 2017\nLaid before Parliament 12th October 2017\nComing into force 2nd November 2017\nThe Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 128A(1) to (4) and 140(7) and (8) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 38. Section 128A was inserted by section 7(4) of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6) (“the 2014 Act”). Section 140(7) was amended by section 7(6) of the 2014 Act. See section 144(1) for the definition of “regulations” and section 131(1)(b) for the definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/978/introduction",
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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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