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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-16",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111174715",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990",
  "text": "In Sections 27(2) (meaning of mother) and 28(5)(c) (meaning of father) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 any reference to adoption is to be read as including a reference to the effect of a parental order under section 54 or section 54A of the 2008 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 37. Section 27 was amended by paragraph 77 to Schedule 3 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Section 28(5)(c) was amended by paragraph 78 of Schedule 3 to that Act."
    }
  ],
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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."
}