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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-orders-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-scotland-regulations-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-orders-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-scotland-regulations-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2804",
  "legislation_title": "The Parental Orders (Human Fertilisation and Embryology) (Scotland) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-orders-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-scotland-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Section 29",
  "text": "Section 29 shall have effect as follows:–\n“Return of child taken away in breach of section 27\n29 (1) An authorised court may on the application of a person from whose care and possession a child has been removed in breach of any of the provisions specified in subsection (3) of this section order the person who has so removed the child to return the child to the applicant.\n(2) An authorised court may, on the application of a person who has reasonable grounds for believing that another person is intending to remove the child from the care and possession of the applicant in breach of any of the provisions specified in subsection (3) of this section by order direct that other person not to remove the child from the care and possession of that applicant in breach of those provisions.\n(3) The provisions specified in this subsection are–\n(a) section 27;\n(b) section 27 of the Adoption Act 1976 as modified by the Parental Orders (Human Fertilisation and Embryology) Regulations 1994; and\n(c) Article 28 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, as modified by the Parental Orders (Human Fertilisation and Embryology) Regulations 1994.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 29 was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983, Schedule 2, paragraphs 43 and 44, and by the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), Schedule 10, paragraph 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/2767."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2804/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:48.879413+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."
}