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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999-commencement-no-4-scotland-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/390",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4) (Scotland) Order 2000",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "10th November 2000 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 13 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 insofar as it inserts a new subsection (3A) after subsection (3) of section 65 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 28; this provision was purported to have been commenced by S.S.I. 2000/223 but, as section 16(2) of the 1999 Act was not in force when that Order was made, the Order was a nullity."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/390/article/2",
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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."
}