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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "text": "In section 41(1) of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (miscellaneous enactments)—\n(a) the reference to an adoption order is to be read as including a reference to a parental order made under section 54 or section 54A of the 2008 Act; and\n(b) the reference to the adopter is to be read as including a reference to any of the persons, or the person, who obtained the parental order in respect of the child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 41(1) was amended by section 86(10) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111174715/schedule/4/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}