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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-17/paragraph-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-17/paragraph-89.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/50",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/89",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 63 of that Act (consent for subsequent disposals) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(2A) Before giving any consent for the purposes of subsection (1) above, Scottish Homes—\n(a) shall satisfy itself that the person who is seeking the consent has taken appropriate steps to consult the tenant of the house (or, as the case may be, each house) of which the property proposed to be disposed of consists; and\n(b) shall have regard to the response of such tenant to that consultation.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/22",
      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/22",
      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/17/paragraph/89",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:37.392139+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."
}