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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-assets-of-community-value-england-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111526293",
  "legislation_title": "The Assets of Community Value (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-assets-of-community-value-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 1 and this paragraph—\n(a) “residence” means a building used or partly used as a residence;\n(b) a building is a residence if—\n(i) it is normally used or partly used as a residence, but for any reason so much of it as is normally used as a residence is temporarily unoccupied;\n(ii) it is let or partly let for use as a holiday dwelling;\n(iii) it, or part of it, is a hotel or is otherwise principally used for letting or licensing accommodation to paying occupants; or\n(iv) it is a house in multiple occupation as defined in section 77 of the Housing Act 2004; and\n(c) a building or other land is not a residence if—\n(i) it is land on which currently there are no residences but for which planning permission or development consent has been granted for the construction of residences;\n(ii) it is a building undergoing construction where there is planning permission or development consent for the completed building to be used as a residence, but construction is not yet complete; or\n(iii) it was previously used as a residence but is in future to be used for a different purpose and planning permission or development consent for a change of use to that purpose has been granted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "c. 34."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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