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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/39",
  "legislation_title": "The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Houses In Multiple Occupation\nMade 7th March 2019\nComing into operation 1st April 2019\nThe Department for Communities , in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 86(1) and 90(2) of the Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) , makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Under section 1(7) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Act 2016 (c.5 (N.I.)), the Department for Social Development, on which the enabling powers for this Order were conferred, was renamed the Department for Communities."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2016 c.22 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/39/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."
}