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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999/schedule-1/part/chapter-V/crossheading-article-26/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/18",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/chapter/V/crossheading/article-26/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The recognition of an adoption includes recognition of\n(a) the legal parent-child relationship between the child and his or her adoptive parents;\n(b) parental responsibility of the adoptive parents for the child;\n(c) the termination of a pre-existing legal relationship between the child and his or her mother and father, if the adoption has this effect in the Contracting State where it was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/18/schedule/1/part/chapter/V/crossheading/article-26/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:55.566406+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."
}