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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975-and-the-adoption-act-1976-commencement-no-2-order-1987/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1242",
  "legislation_title": "The Children Act 1975 and the Adoption Act 1976 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975-and-the-adoption-act-1976-commencement-no-2-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE ACT WHICH COME INTO FORCE ON 1ST JANUARY 1988",
  "text": "Provision of the 1975 Act\nSubject matter\nSection 1\nEstablishment of Adoption Services.\nSection 2\nLocal authorities' social services.\nParagraph 74(b) of Schedule 3 so far as it provides for the insertion of the words “Maintenance of Adoption Service; function of local authority as adoption agency” in the entry relating to Part I of the 1975 Act in Schedule 1 to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970\nConsequential amendment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 42."
    }
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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."
}