{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-designation-of-overseas-adoptions-variation-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/690",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) (Variation) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-designation-of-overseas-adoptions-variation-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Variation of Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973",
  "text": "The Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973 (designation) shall be varied as follows—\n(a) there shall be inserted at the beginning of paragraph (2) of Article 3 the words “Subject to paragraph (2A) of this Article,”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) of Article 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(2A) This Article also applies, as respects any adoption effected on or after 5th April 1993, in relation to any place which, at the time the adoption is effected, forms part of the People’s Republic of China.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/19."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/690/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:01:33.502071+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."
}