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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-20",
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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/4/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Sexual Offences Act 2003",
  "text": "In sections 64 and 65 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (sex with an adult relative: penetration) references to an adoptive relationship (however expressed) is to be read as a reference to the corresponding relationships created by the grant of a parental order and which arise by virtue of the enactments applied with modifications by regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 42. Section 64 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) and section 65 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "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."
}