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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homes-fitness-for-human-habitation-act-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/34",
  "legislation_title": "Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homes-fitness-for-human-habitation-act-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 to require that residential rented accommodation is provided and maintained in a state of fitness for human habitation; and for connected purposes.\n[20th December 2018]\nBe it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/34/introduction",
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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."
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