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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/15",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Rights Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Letting agents to which the duty applies",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter “letting agent” means a person who engages in letting agency work (whether or not that person engages in other work).\n(2) A person is not a letting agent for the purposes of this Chapter if the person engages in letting agency work in the course of that person's employment under a contract of employment.\n(3) A person is not a letting agent for the purposes of this Chapter if—\n(a) the person is of a description specified in regulations made by the appropriate national authority;\n(b) the person engages in work of a description specified in regulations made by the appropriate national authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 84 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 100(2)(b)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 27.5.2015 for E. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/965, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 23.11.2015 for W. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1904, art. 2"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:53.853097+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."
}