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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A tenancy granted in pursuance of any function under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (homelessness) ... is not a secure tenancy unless the local housing authority concerned have notified the tenant that the tenancy is to be regarded as a secure tenancy.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 and cross-heading substituted (20.1.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 216(3), Sch. 17 para. 3; S.I. 1996/2959, art. 2 (subject to transitional provision in Sch. para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 4 omitted (1.12.2022) by virtue of The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 11(28)(a) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 2, 11, 12, 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/22",
      "affecting_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/19",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration Act 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}