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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-wales-amendment-regulations-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2005/3293",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-wales-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL CARE, WALES\nMade 29 November 2005\nComing into force 30 December 2005\nThe National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 2(6), 9, 98 and 144(2) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in so far as it is required under section 98(6), hereby makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 38. These powers are exercisable by the appropriate Minister, who is defined in section 144(1) of the Act in relation to England, as the Secretary of State, in relation to Wales as the National Assembly for Wales and in relation to England and Wales, as the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales acting jointly."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/3293/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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