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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-amendment-regulations-2024/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/884",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Registration Of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Etc., England And Wales\nMade 3rd September 2024\nComing into force 9th September 2024\nThe Registrar General for England and Wales makes these Regulations with the approval of the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20, 22(2), 23, 23A(1) and (3), 33A(2) and 39(1)(a) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20. Section 20 was amended by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), Schedule 21, Part 1, paragraphs 6 and 12, and Schedule 23, Part 1. Section 22 was substituted by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Schedule 21, Part 1, paragraphs 6 and 14. Section 23 was amended by the Coroners Act 1988 (c. 13) Schedule 3, paragraph 4(1), (2), (3) and (4), Schedule 4, by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Schedule 21, Part 1, paragraphs 6, 15(1), (2), (3) and (4), and by the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), section 44. Section 23A was inserted by S.I. 1996/2395, article 3. Section 33A was inserted by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, Schedule 21, Part 1, paragraphs 6 and 19. Section 39(1)(a) was numbered as such by S.I. 2021/1231, article 3 and amended (prospectively) by the Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), Schedule 6, Part 1, paragraphs 1 and 16, and by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 98(1) and (3), and by the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), Schedule 15, Part 2, paragraphs 21 and 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 38."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/884/introduction",
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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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