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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111116913",
  "legislation_title": "The Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) in the definition of “adoption agency”, for “section 1(4) of the Adoption Act 1976” substitute “section 2(1) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002”;\n(ii) after the definition of “paternity leave” insert—\n““shared parental leave” means leave under section 75E or 75G of the 1996 Act”;\n(b) in paragraph (4)(b), for “regulation 11(2) of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983” substitute “regulation 33(3)(a) of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005, regulation 28(3) of the Adoption Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2005”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36. The Adoption Act 1976 was repealed by the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), section 139(3), Schedule 5, paragraph 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Sections 75E and 75G were inserted by the Children and Families Act 2014, section 117."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1964."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1313."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111116913/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:40.812499+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."
}