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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-accounts-regulations-1981/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-accounts-regulations-1981/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1520",
  "legislation_title": "The Estate Agents (Accounts) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-accounts-regulations-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations govern accounts in respect of clients' money, as defined by the Estate Agents Act 1979, namely contract or pre-contract deposits received by a person engaged in estate agency work in the course of that work.\nThey make provision as to the opening and keeping of client accounts, the keeping of accounts and records relating to clients' money, the auditing of those accounts and interest on clients' money.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1520/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:32:04.430680+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."
}