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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-registration-order-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/678",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38)",
  "text": "In the following provisions of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, for “the Chancellor of the Exchequer” substitute “the Secretary of State”—\n(a) section 78(3) (searches and copies);\n(b) section 79(9) (connections between the register and birth records);\n(c) section 81(4) (Adoption Contact Register: supplementary);\n(d) section 98(6) (pre-commencement adoptions: information);\n(e) section 142(7) (supplementary and consequential provision);\n(f) paragraph 1(1) and 3(6)(a) of Schedule 1 (registration of adoptions);\n(g) paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (disclosure of birth records by Registrar General).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/678/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:03.444032+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."
}