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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/46",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Reform Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to the age of majority, to persons who have not attained that age and to the time when a particular age is attained; to amend the law relating to the property rights of illegitimate children and of other persons whose relationship is traced through an illegitimate link; to make provision for the use of blood tests for the purpose of determining the paternity of any person in civil proceedings; to make provision with respect to the evidence required to rebut a presumption of legitimacy and illegitimacy; to make further provision, in connection with the registration of the birth of an illegitimate child, for entering the name of the father; and for connected purposes.\n[25th July 1969]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 28(3); Act wholly in force at 1.3.1972"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "For extent of this Act see s. 28(4)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/46/introduction",
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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."
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