{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971",
  "text": "In regulation 2—\n(a) in paragraph (1), after the definition of “photograph” insert—\n““protected party” means a person who lacks capacity, within the meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, to consent to tests”; and\n(b) omit paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c.9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/972/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:13.536667+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."
}