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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-of-leases-act-1958/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/52",
  "legislation_title": "Costs of Leases Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-of-leases-act-1958",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Costs of leases.",
  "text": "Notwithstanding any custom to the contrary, a party to a lease shall, unless the parties thereto agree otherwise in writing, be under no obligation to pay the whole or any part of any other party’s solicitor’s costs of the lease.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended (E.W.) (01.01.1992) by S.I. 1991/2684, arts. 2, 4, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 1 applied (with modifications) (23.12.2011) by The Legal Services Act 2007 (Designation as a Licensing Authority) (No. 2) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:45.924984+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."
}