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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provision-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2717",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provision) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provision-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions of the Act coming into force on 1st October 2007",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1st October 2007—\n(a) sections 8 (powers of local authority in relation to the provision of childcare), 9 (arrangements between local authority and childcare providers), 10 (charges where local authority provide childcare), 17 (charges for early years provision at maintained school) and 51 (interpretation of Chapter 2);\n(b) section 13 (duty to provide information, advice and training to childcare providers) in so far as it is not already in force;\n(c) sections 33 to 37, 49, 50, 52 to 56 and 59 to 61 for the purposes of making an order or regulations;\n(d) paragraph 2(1), (3) and (5) of Schedule 1 (and section 48 in so far as it relates to those sub-paragraphs of that paragraph);\n(e) paragraphs 4 and 32(1), (2), (3) and (5) of Schedule 2 (and section 103(1) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs);\n(f) in relation to England—\nparagraph 32(4) of Schedule 2 (and section 103(1) in so far as it relates to that paragraph), and\nin Part 2 of Schedule 3 the repeal of section 119(5)(ab) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (and section 103(2) in so far as it relates to that provision).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 50(4) of the Childcare Act 2006 was repealed by paragraph 111 of Schedule 14 and by Part 5 of Schedule 18 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2717/article/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."
}