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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/24",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Registration of births",
  "text": "Schedule 6 contains—\n(a) amendments of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20) relating to the registration of the births of children whose parents are neither married to each other nor civil partners of each other,\n(b) amendments of that Act relating to the late registration of births, and\n(c) related amendments of other legislation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 21.5.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/1256, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 19.9.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2016/913, art. 2(a)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/24/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:45.980880+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."
}