{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/schedule-2/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/38",
  "legislation_title": "Estate Agents Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If the lead enforcement authority decides to proceed with its proposal it may, if it thinks fit having regard to any representations made to it —\n(a) where the proposal is for the making of an order, make the order in a form which varies from that of the proposed order mentioned in the notice under paragraph 2 above, or\n(b) where the proposal is to vary an order, make a variation other than that mentioned in the notice under paragraph 2 above, or\n(c) where the proposal is to refuse to revoke an order, vary the order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8 substituted (31.3.2014) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(5), Sch. 2 para. 1(13)(a)(v)(gg) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8 substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 9(16)(f); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3) (as amended (20.7.2007) by S.I. 2007/1846, reg. 3(2), Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/38/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:14.771399+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."
}