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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/828",
  "legislation_title": "The Children Act 1989 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 21 of Schedule 10 to the Act (adoption contact register)and section 88(1) of the Act so far as it relates to that paragraphshall come into force on 1st May 1991.\n(2) All provisions of the Act which are not by then already in forceshall come into force on 14th October 1991.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/828/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:47.718739+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}