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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "asp/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In subsection (4) of section 12 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (restrictions on decrees for divorce, separation or annulment affecting children)—\n(a) the existing words from “the parties” to the end shall become paragraph (a) (with the existing paragraphs (a) and (b) becoming sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii)); and\n(b) after the new paragraph (a), there shall be added\n“; or\n“(b) the partners in a civil partnership, means a child who has been treated by both partners as a child of the family which their partnership constitutes.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 4.5.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:18.094952+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."
}