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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975-and-the-adoption-act-1976-commencement-no-2-order-1987/schedule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1975-and-the-adoption-act-1976-commencement-no-2-order-1987/schedule-2.json",
  "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/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE 1976 ACT WHICH COME INTO FORCE ON 1ST JANUARY 1988",
  "text": "Provision of the 1976 Act\nSubject matter\nEach of the sections of the 1976 Act except for sections 58A (information concerning adoption) and 74 (short title, commencement and extent) and section 73(2) and (3) (amendments and repeals) other than the extent to which they give effect to the provisions of Schedules 3 and 4 referred to in the two following paragraphs in this column.\nProvisions relating to Adoption Service, adoption orders, care and protection of children awaiting adoption, status of adopted children, registration and revocation of adoption orders and convention adoptions, miscellaneous and supplemental provisions, registration of adoptions and transitional provisions and savings.\nIn Schedule 3, the provisions specified in the appendix to this Schedule.\nConsequential amendments.\nAll the provisions in Schedule 4 except so far as they relate to the repeal of paragraphs 6, 26 and 63 of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975.\nRepeals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 58A was inserted by paragraph 35 of Schedule 2 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}