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  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
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  "text": "An Act to make provision about housing, estate agents, rentcharges, planning and compulsory purchase.\n[12th May 2016]\nBe it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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