{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111174715",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 40(1) to (3), (5) and (10) (status conferred by adoption) has effect as if—\n(a) for subsection (1) there were substituted—\n“(1) A person who is the subject of a parental order is to be treated in law as if born as the child of the person or persons who obtained the order.”;\n(b) for subsection (2) there were substituted—\n“(2) A person who is the subject of a parental order is to be treated as the child of the person or persons who obtained the order.”;\n(c) for subsection (3) there were substituted—\n“(3) A person who is the subject of a parental order is to be treated in law as not being the child of any person other than the person or persons who obtained the order.”;\n(d) in subsection (5)—\n(i) for “Subsections (3) and (4) do” there were substituted\n“Subsection (3) (as applied with modifications by regulation 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Parental Order Regulations) does”; and\n(ii) after “this Act” insert “(as modified by regulation 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Parental Order Regulations)”; and\n(e) in subsection (10)—\n(i) after “Chapter” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Parental Order Regulations)”;\n(ii) after “this section” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Parental Order Regulations)”; and\n(iii) for the word “adoption” in each place it appears there were substituted “making of the parental order”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111174715/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:24.148891+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."
}