{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Service of notice of demolition or closing order or intention to purchase",
  "text": "Where a local authority—\n(a) have made a demolition or closing order under either of the two last foregoing sections, or\n(b) have determined to purchase a house under the former of those sections,\nthey shall serve a copy of the order or, as the case may be, a notice of their determination to purchase the house on every person on whom they would be required under subsection (1) of section sixteen of this Act to serve a notice issued by them under that subsection.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56/section/19",
    "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."
}