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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-scotland-amendment-regulations-2010/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/173",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-scotland-amendment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Children And Young Persons\nMade 29th April 2010\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 30th April 2010\nComing into force 24th May 2010\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) to (3) and (5) of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 and section 8 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.18. The functions of the Secretary of State transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 16(2) of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 and section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46). Section 1 was amended by the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4), Schedule 2, paragraph 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 asp 4."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/173/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."
}