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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-regulations-1971/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1861",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971",
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  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Direction form",
  "text": "A sampler shall not take a sample from a subject unless Parts I and II of the direction form have been completed and the direction form purports to be signed by the proper officer of the court or some person on his behalf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1834",
      "affecting_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1861/regulation/3",
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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."
}