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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1969/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1969/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/33",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1969",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the works comprise the provision of a water closet and, in connection therewith, the installation of a septic tank or a cesspool then, if before the application for the grant or contribution is approved the local authority have or the Minister has been satisfied that the connection of the water closet with main drainage is not possible or reasonably practicable there shall be substituted as the amount allowed for that amenity an amount fixed by the local authority or Minister.\n(2) The amount to be fixed under this paragraph shall be such amount, higher than that specified in the Table set out in Part I of this Schedule, as in the opinion of the local authority or Minister is one half of such part of the cost proper to be incurred in carrying out the works as is attributable to the provision of the water closet.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/33/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:08.296822+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."
}