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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mining-subsidence-act-1957-repealed-30111991/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mining-subsidence-act-1957-repealed-30111991/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/59",
  "legislation_title": "Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1957 (repealed 30.11.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mining-subsidence-act-1957-repealed-30111991",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a dwelling-house is affected by subsidence damage occurring after the passing of this Act, the provisions of this Schedule shall have effect as respects any period (in this Schedule referred to as “the period of dispossession”) during which both the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say—\n(a) that by reason of deterioration due to the subsidence damage in the condition of the dwelling-house, and having regard to the time which will be required to remedy that deterioration, the dwelling-house is not in a reasonably fit state for it to be used as such; and\n(b) that the dwelling-house is not used as such by or with the authority of the person who immediately before the occurrence of the subsidence damage was entitled to possession thereof (hereinafter in this Schedule referred to as “the occupier”).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/59/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:32.032762+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."
}