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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/code-of-practice-for-local-authority-adoption-services-appointed-day-wales-order-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2019/856",
  "legislation_title": "The Code of Practice for Local Authority Adoption Services (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/code-of-practice-for-local-authority-adoption-services-appointed-day-wales-order-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Care, Wales\nMade 11 April 2019\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 146(4)(b) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”).\nThe Welsh Ministers, in accordance with section 146(1) of the 2014 Act, have consulted such persons as they think fit on a draft of the code of practice for local authority adoption services.\nThe Welsh Ministers, in accordance with section 146(2) of the 2014 Act, laid a draft of the code of practice for local authority adoption services before the National Assembly for Wales on 20 February 2019.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 anaw 4."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/856/introduction",
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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."
}