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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-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111479926",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "text": "In section 86 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (eligibility), after subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) This section and Schedule 10 have effect as if any reference in 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": "2004 c. 33. Section 86 was amended by the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 2), Schedule 1, paragraph 2 and Schedule 3."
    }
  ],
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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."
}