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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986-commencement-no-11-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/283",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Planning Act 1986 (Commencement No. 11) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986-commencement-no-11-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 11th March 1988 section 6 of and Schedule 1 to the Housing and Planning Act 1986, which insert a new section 106A and Schedule 3A in the Housing Act 1985 (c. 68).\nThe new provisions require a local authority proposing to dispose of dwellings subject to secure tenancies (within Part IV of the 1985 Act), and the Secretary of State when considering whether to consent to such a disposal (under sections 32 or 43 of that Act), to have regard to the views of tenants liable as a result of the disposal to cease to be secure tenants. The Secretary of State’s consent is to be withheld if it appears to him that a majority of the tenants concerned are opposed to the disposal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/283/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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