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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/30",
  "legislation_title": "Interpretation Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/1/crossheading/construction-of-certain-references-to-relationships/paragraph/wrapper4n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In relation to England and Wales—\n(a) references (however expressed) to any relationship between two persons;\n(b) references to a person whose father and mother were or were not married to , or civil partners of, each other at the time of his birth; and\n(c) references cognate with references falling within paragraph (b) above,\nshall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987. [The date of the coming into force of that section]",
  "extent": null,
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Entry added (E.W.) by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42, SIF 49:7), s. 33(1)(2), Sch. 2 para. 73, Sch. 3 paras. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Paragraph excluded by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 831(4)"
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