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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-7-and-savings-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 7 and Savings) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-7-and-savings-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order brings into force, on 28th February 1997, the following provisions of the Housing Act 1996 (subject to the savings in the Schedule to the Order)—\nsection 96, to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsections 97 to 104 (assured tenancies);\nsections 148 to 151 (repossession: assured tenancies); and\nsection 227, in so far as it relates to the repeals in Part IV of Schedule 19 (assured tenancies).\nThe amendments to sections 8 and 21(1) and (4) of and Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 made by the provisions commenced in the Order are subject to the savings in the Schedule to the Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/225/note",
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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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