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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2009/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/267",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2009",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Restrictions on removal of children: pending applications for adoption",
  "text": "Sections 28 (restrictions on removal where applicant has provided home for 5 years) and 29 (return of child taken away in breach of s.27 or 28) of the 1978 Act continue to have effect where an application for an adoption order has been made under section 14 or 15 of the 1978 Act and not yet determined on the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 28 was amended and repealed in part by the 1995 Act, Schedules 2 and 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 29 was amended by the Children Act 1989 c.41, Schedule 10 and the Adoption and Children Act 2002 c.38, Schedule 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/267/article/4",
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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."
}