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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014-transitional-provisions-order-2014/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1042",
  "legislation_title": "The Children and Families Act 2014 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014-transitional-provisions-order-2014",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Post-adoption contact orders",
  "text": "Section 51A of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, as inserted by section 9(1) of the 2014 Act, does not apply to proceedings arising out of an application for a contact order which was commenced but not disposed of prior to the commencement date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c.38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1042/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:18:30.345497+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."
}