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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-2/part-I/crossheading-ground-2a/paragraph-wrapper2n1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/I/crossheading/ground-2a/paragraph/wrapper2n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The dwelling-house was occupied (whether alone or with others) by a married couple, a couple who are civil partners of each other ... or a couple living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners and—\n(a) one or both of the partners is a tenant of the dwelling-house,\n(b) one partner has left because of violence or threats of violence by the other towards—\n(i) that partner, or\n(ii) a member of the family of that partner who was residing with that partner immediately before the partner left, and\n(c) the court is satisfied that the partner who has left is unlikely to return.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Ground 2A and cross-heading inserted (4.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 145; S.I. 1997/66, art. 2 (subject to savings in Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Ground 2A substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 33(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Ground 2A omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 10(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Ground 2A inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 33(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I Ground 2A inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 10(6)(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/schedule/2/part/I/crossheading/ground-2a/paragraph/wrapper2n1",
    "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."
}