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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/38",
  "legislation_title": "Estate Agents Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The period specified under paragraph 1(c) must not be less than 28 days beginning with the day after that on which the penalty charge notice was given.\n(2) The enforcement authority may extend the period for complying with the requirement mentioned in paragraph 1(c) in any particular case if they consider it appropriate to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 inserted (12.10.2007) by Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (c. 17), s. 66(2), Sch. 6 para. 4; S.I. 2007/2934, art. 3, Sch."
    }
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  "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."
}