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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/596",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EVIDENCE\nMade 25th February 2004\nLaid before Parliament 9th March 2004\nComing into force 1st April 2004\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(1)(g) of the Family Law Reform Act 1969, and now vested in him ,makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1969 c. 46; amended by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), Schedule 2 paragraph 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/709, article 3 and Schedule 2."
    }
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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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