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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1980/schedule-21/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1980/schedule-21/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/51",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Schedule 8 to the 1974 Act (procedure for obtaining reduction of rateable value for purposes of the 1967 Act)—\n(a) in paragraph 1(1) (notice to landlord requiring agreement to reduction), for “ subsection (1) of section 1 of this Act” substitute “ section 1 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 ” ;\n(b) in paragraph 2(2)(determinations by county court), omit from “ and any such determination” onwards ;\n(c) in paragraph 3(2)(a) (valuation officer’s certificate) for “ subsection (1) of section 1 of this Act” substitute “ section 1 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 ”;\n(d) after paragraph 3 insert—\n“4 Where a notice under paragraph 1 of this Schedule is served on or after 21st December 1979, the tenant shall bear the reasonable costs incurred by the landlord in investigating any matter specified in it.”\n(e) in paragraph 2 of the second Form set out in the Schedule, for the words “ Schedule Seven to the Leasehold Reform Act 1967” substitute “ Schedule 8 to the Housing Act 1974 ”, and in paragraph 3 of that Form for “ Seven” substitute “ 8 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/51/schedule/21/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:10.882788+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."
}