{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986/schedule-3/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986/schedule-3/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/63",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Renumber section 519 of the Housing Act 1985 (meaning of “reasonable repair”) as subsection (1) of that section and after it insert—\n“(2) In determining what is “reasonable repair” in relation to the common parts of a building, a local housing authority shall have regard to—\n(a) the age and character of the building and the locality in which it is situated, and\n(b) the character of the dwellings in the building and the period during which they are likely to be available for use as dwellings,\nand shall disregard the state of internal decorative repair of the building and the dwellings in it.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 repealed (prosp.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 194(4), 195(2), Sch. 12 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1989/42",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government and Housing Act 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/63/schedule/3/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:53.851580+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."
}