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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/554",
  "legislation_title": "The London Authorities (Children) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965",
  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
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  "text": "(1) A person in the care of the council of a dissolved county borough immediately before 1st April 1965 in pursuance of an enactment specified in Article 1 or 2 of this Order or under the supervision of the council at that time by virtue of a supervision order shall, on 1st April 1965, be transferred to the care or supervision, as the case may be, of the successor authority.\n(2) Functions, powers, rights and liabilities vested in or attaching to such a council immediately before 1st April 1965—\n(a) by virtue of a resolution under section 2 of the Children Act 1948 as respects a person who was not at that time in their care, or\n(b) by virtue of making or participating in arrangements for the adoption of an infant under the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1959, or\n(c) under section 15 or 47 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963, shall, on 1st April 1965, be transferred to and vested in or attached to the successor authority.\n(3) Where the children's officer of such a council is, immediately before 1st April 1965, acting as the guardian ad litem for the purposes of an application for an adoption order under the Adoption Act 1958, the children's officer of the successor authority, shall, on and after that date, be deemed to have been duly appointed guardian ad litem for that purpose.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/554/article/7",
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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."
}