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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2018/article-4.44",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/719",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/4.44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4.44",
  "heading": "Formal defects",
  "text": "No housing administration proceedings is to be invalidated by any formal defect or any irregularity unless the court before which objection is made considers that substantial injustice has been caused by the defect or irregularity and that the injustice cannot be remedied by any order of the court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.44 in force at 5.7.2018, see rule 1.1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/719/article/4.44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:44.383213+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."
}