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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1412",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-parental-orders-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "text": "(1) In section 39 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (status conferred by adoption)—\n(a) a reference to an adoption order in each place it occurs 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) a reference to an adopter is to be read as including a reference to any of the persons, or the person, who obtained a parental order in respect of the child.\n(2) In subsection (2) the reference to a child who has been adopted by one of his natural parents is to be read as including a reference to a child who is the subject of a parental order granted to one of that child’s natural parents.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 7 in force at 21.12.2018, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 28. Section 39 was amended by section 97 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 2). Other amendments have been made, but those amendments are not relevant to this instrument"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "nia/2022/18",
      "affecting_title": "Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1412/schedule/4/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:49:45.068173+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."
}