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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-adoption-amendment-rules-2001/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/820",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) (Amendment) Rules 2001",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In rule 2(1), at the appropriate places, insert—\n““children’s guardian” means an officer of the service appointed to act on behalf of the child in accordance with section 65(1)(a) of the 1976 Act;”;\n““reporting officer” means an officer of the service appointed in accordance with section 65(1)(b) of the 1976 Act;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Adoption Act 1976 (c. 36); section 65 is amended by the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43), Schedule 7, Part II, paragraphs 51 and 52 and Schedule 8."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}