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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2152",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1988 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Housing Act 1988 shall come into force on 2nd January 1989 —\nsection 140(1) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 77, 78, 85 to 88 and 90 of Schedule 17,\nsection 140(2) in so far as it relates to the repeal by Schedule 18 of words in section 38 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 43."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2152/article/2",
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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."
}