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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/38",
  "legislation_title": "Estate Agents Act 1979",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "After the expiry of the period of five years beginning on the day on which any such finding or notice as is referred to in paragraph 2 above became final, no person shall be treated for the purposes of section 3(1)(b) of this Act as having committed a contravention of a relevant equality provision by reason only of that finding or notice.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 substituted by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 26 Pt. 1 para. 6(3) (as inserted (1.10.2010) by S.I. 2010/2279, art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2 (see S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2))"
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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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