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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-244",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-244.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/34",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/244",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "244",
  "heading": "Power to prescribe forms",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate national authority may by regulations prescribe the form of any notice, statement or other document which is required or authorised to be used under, or for the purposes of, this Act.\n(2) The power conferred by this section is not exercisable where specific provision for prescribing the form of a document is made elsewhere in this Act or in relation to a document given or made by the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 244(2) inserted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 177 (with Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/34/section/244",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:48.975968+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}