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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-2/part-I/crossheading-ground-5/paragraph-wrapper3n1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The tenant is the person, or one of the persons, to whom the tenancy was granted and the landlord was induced to grant the tenancy by a false statement made knowingly or recklessly by—\n(a) the tenant, or\n(b) a person acting at the tenant’s instigation",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Ground 5(a)(b) and word “by” immediately preceding it substituted (4.2.1997) for words by 1996 c. 52, s. 146; S.I. 1997/66, art. 2 (subject to savings in Sch.)"
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  },
  "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."
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