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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-defects-act-1984/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-defects-act-1984/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/50",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Defects Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-defects-act-1984",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision in connection with defective dwellings disposed of by public sector authorities; and to provide for certain provisions in agreements between building societies to be disregarded for the purposes of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976.\n[31st July 1984]\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:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act repealed by Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71, SIF 61), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I (by s. 6(3) it is provided that s. 3 and Sch. 1 Pt. I of the Act extend to England and Wales) and repealed (S.) by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 335, 339(3), Sch. 24"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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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."
}