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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/14",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Children Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to require a list to be kept of persons considered unsuitable to work with children; to extend the power to make regulations under section 218(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988; to make further provision with respect to that list and the list kept for the purposes of such regulations; to enable the protection afforded to children to be afforded to persons suffering from mental impairment; and for connected purposes.\n[15th July 1999]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 24(1); S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act modified (1.4.2005) by Children Act 2004 (c. 31), ss. 39(1), 67(6); S.I. 2005/700, art. 2(2)"
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    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "S. 9, Sch. extend to the United Kingdom from 11.1.2001 as a consequence of the amendment to s. 14 by 2000 c. 43, s. 74, Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 159; S.I. 2000/3302, art. 2(b)"
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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."
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