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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111479926",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2009",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977",
  "text": "In section 2 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (marriage of related persons), after subsection (7) insert—\n“(7A) This section and Schedule 1 to this Act have effect as if any reference in paragraphs 1 and 2 of that Schedule to a mother within any of the degrees of relationship specified in either column included a woman who is a parent of a child by virtue of section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 15. Section 2 was amended by the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9), sections 9 and 10, Schedule 1, paragraph 17 and Schedule 2; the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16), section 2, Schedule 2, paragraph 2; the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7), Schedule 4, paragraph 7; the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 2), section 1(a) and S.S.I. 2006/384, article 4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479926/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:21.509990+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."
}