{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991/article-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1677",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-allocation-of-proceedings-order-1991",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Application for adoption or freeing for adoption",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 22, proceedings in a divorce county court, which is not also a family hearing centre, under section 12 or 18 of the Adoption Act 1976 shall, if the court is notified that the proceedings will be opposed, be transferred for trial to a family hearing centre.\n(2) Where proceedings under the Adoption Act 1976 are to be transferred from a magistrates' court to a county court, they shall be transferred to a divorce county court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2797",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1677/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:56.002723+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."
}