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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-special-restrictions-on-adoptions-from-abroad-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1807",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Abroad) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-special-restrictions-on-adoptions-from-abroad-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Children And Young Persons, England And Wales\nChildren And Young Persons, Northern Ireland\nMade 8th July 2008\nLaid before Parliament 11th July 2008\nComing into force 1st August 2008\nThe Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 11(3), 12(1), 16(4) and 16(5) of the Children and Adoption Act 2006:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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