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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/18",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In subsection (1) of section 57 of the Family Law Act 1986 (declarations as to adoptions effected overseas), for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—\n“(a) a Convention adoption as defined by subsection (1) of section 72 of the Adoption Act 1976 or an overseas adoption as defined by subsection (2) of that section, or”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.6.2003 for E.W. by S.I. 2003/189, art. 2(2)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/38",
      "affecting_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/18/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}