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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-23",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1981/156",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Power to let houses to government departments and other bodies",
  "text": "(1) The Executive may let houses to a government department (including a department of the government of the United Kingdom), or to a public authority or body, or to any charitable or benevolent association, society or body of persons (whether corporate or unincorporate).\n(2) The Executive may let a house to any local or other body of persons for any purpose beneficial to the residents of the area in which the house to be let is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/156/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:23.326754+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."
}