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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-7-and-savings-order-1997/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 7 and Savings) Order 1997",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The insertion of section 8A in the Housing Act 1988 and the amendment to section 8 of and Schedule 2 to that Act (repossession: assured tenancies) shall have no effect in a case where—\n(a) a notice under section 8 of that Act (notice of proceedings for possession) has been served before the commencement date; or\n(b) the court has dispensed with the requirement of such a notice and the proceedings for possession were started before the commencement date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "c. 50. See sections 101, 102, 148, 149, 150 and 151 of the Housing Act 1996."
    }
  ],
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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."
}