{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013/section-70",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/24",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013",
  "path": "section/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Estate agency work",
  "text": "In section 1 of the Estate Agents Act 1979 (estate agency work), for subsection (4) substitute—\n“(4) This Act does not apply to the following things when done by a person who does no other things which fall within subsection (1) above—\n(a) publishing advertisements or disseminating information;\n(b) providing a means by which—\n(i) a person who wishes to acquire or dispose of an interest in land can, in response to such an advertisement or dissemination of information, make direct contact with a person who wishes to dispose of or, as the case may be, acquire an interest in land;\n(ii) the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) can continue to communicate directly with each other.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 70 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/2227, art. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/24/section/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:12.713580+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."
}