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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/773",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and transitional provisions",
  "text": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations and, in those provisions, any reference to a regulation or form by number alone shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or form so numbered in the said Regulations of 1971 or in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1971/1861, amended by S.I. 1989/776, 1990/319, 1990/1025, 1991/2472, 1992/709, 1992/1369."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/773/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:58:48.513944+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."
}