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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957/section-167",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957",
  "path": "section/167",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "167",
  "heading": "Authentication of certificates",
  "text": "Any document purporting to be a certificate of a local authority named therein issued for any of the purposes of this Act and to be signed by the clerk to that authority shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such a certificate without further proof unless the contrary is shown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56/section/167",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:34.612316+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."
}