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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-revocations-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2804",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-revocations-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, “the appointed day” means 30th December 2005.\n(2) A reference to a section by number alone means the section so numbered in the Adoption Act 1976.",
  "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 The whole Act is repealed by section 139(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38) from a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
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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."
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