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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-amendment-no-2-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2797",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-amendment-no-2-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Savings and transitional provisions",
  "text": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991 shall continue to apply as if the amendments in this Order had not been made to an application under the following sections of the Adoption Act 1976—\n(a) section 12 (adoption order);\n(b) section 18 (freeing for adoption);\n(c) section 20 (revocation of a section 18 order);\n(d) section 21 (variation of a section 18 order so as to substitute one adoption agency for another);\n(e) section 27(1) or (2) (restriction on removal of child where adoption pending or application made under section 18);\n(f) section 29 (return of child taken away in breach of section 27);\n(g) section 53 (annulment etc. of overseas adoptions); and\n(h) section 55 (adoption of children abroad).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36, section 20 was amended by section 88 of, and Schedule 10, paragraph 8(1) and (2) to, the Children Act 1989 (c. 41) and by section 139(2) of, and paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 4 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38). Sections 12, 18 and 55 were amended, and sections 21 and 29(1) and (2) were substituted, by section 88 of, and Schedule 10, paragraph 3, 6, 9, 15 and 22 to, the Children Act 1989. Section 53 was amended by sections 6(1) and (2), 15(2) and 17 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (c. 18). The whole Act is repealed by section 139(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38) from a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "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."
}