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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-A1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-A1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/A1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "A1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Schedule applies only in relation to local authorities in England.\n(2) Accordingly, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this Schedule to a local authority means a local authority in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. A1 and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 107"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
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    {
      "type": "words repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:21.051680+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."
}