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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-health-and-safety-rating-system-england-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3208",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-health-and-safety-rating-system-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Moderate",
  "text": "(1) A harm is within the moderate class of harm if, as a result of the hazard in question, moderate harm is reasonably foreseeable.\n(2) Moderate harm includes—\n(a) pleural plaques;\n(b) occasional severe discomfort;\n(c) benign tumours;\n(d) occasional mild pneumonia;\n(e) broken finger;\n(f) slight concussion;\n(g) moderate cuts to face or body;\n(h) severe bruising to body;\n(i) regular serious coughs or colds.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 4 substituted (23.6.2026) by The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/571), regs. 1(1), 9(d) (with reg. 10) (as amended by S.I. 2026/629, regs. 1(2), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 heading substituted (23.6.2026) by The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/571), regs. 1(1), 9(d) (with reg. 10) (as amended by S.I. 2026/629, regs. 1(2), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 6.4.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3208/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:07.715449+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."
}