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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-consequential-provisions-act-1985/schedule-4/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/71",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-consequential-provisions-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 37 of the Housing Act 1980 (effect of assignment or subletting, &c.) as originally enacted shall be deemed never to have applied in relation to the assignment of secure tenancies.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not affect—\n(a) in the case of a periodic tenancy, the operation of a notice to quit served on the tenant before 26th August 1984;\n(b) in the case of a tenancy for a term certain, any proceedings for forfeiture in pursuance of a notice served on the tenant before that date.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/71/schedule/4/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:42.575765+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."
}