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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999-commencement-no-9-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999-commencement-no-9-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "1st June 2003 is the appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act—\n(a) section 7 (acquisition of British citizenship by Convention adoptions);\n(b) Schedule 2, paragraph 2 and section 15 (amendment to the Immigration Act) in so far as it relates to that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/362/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:58.584555+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."
}