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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-act-1985/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/60",
  "legislation_title": "Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-and-custody-act-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable the United Kingdom to ratify two international Conventions relating respectively to the civil aspects of international child abduction and to the recognition and enforcement of custody decisions.\n[25th July 1985]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 29(2); Act wholly in force at 1.8.1986"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/60/introduction",
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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."
}