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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-amendment-act-1986-commencement-no-1-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1262",
  "legislation_title": "The Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-amendment-act-1986-commencement-no-1-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings sections 2 and 3 of the Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1986 into force on 1st August 1988. Section 2 provides for a parent or guardian to have an automatic right of appeal from care proceedings. Section 3 enables a parent or guardian to be made a party to care proceedings when there is a conflict of interest between the parent and child. Further, section 3 provides that grandparents may, by leave of the court and in accordance with criteria given in Rules, become parties to care proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1262/note",
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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."
}