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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3264",
  "legislation_title": "The Allocation of Housing (England) Regulations 2002",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Housing Act 1996;\n“the Common Travel Area” means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland collectively; and\n“the immigration rules” means the rules laid down as mentioned in section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 (general provisions for regulation and control).",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77."
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  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "am (1.1.2009)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/3015",
      "affecting_title": "The Allocation of Housing (England)(Amendment)(Family Intervention Tenancies) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010"
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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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