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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-homeless-persons-act-1977/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-homeless-persons-act-1977/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/48",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-homeless-persons-act-1977",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Meaning of \"accommodation available for occupation\"",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Act accommodation is only available for a person's occupation if it is available for occupation both by him and by any other person who might reasonably be expected to reside with him and any reference in this Act to securing accommodation for a person's occupation shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/48/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:08.314944+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."
}