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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-acquire-regulations-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997",
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  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 156 (liability to repay is a charge on the premises)—\n(a) for subsection (2) substitute—\n“(2) Subject to subsections (2A) and (2B), the charge has priority immediately after any legal charge securing an amount advanced to the tenant by an approved lending institution for the purpose of enabling him to exercise the right to acquire.”,\n(b) in subsection (2A)(a) omit the words “paragraph (a) or (b) of”, and\n(c) in subsection (4A) omit paragraph (a).",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 156(2) was substituted by section 120(3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993."
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 156(2A) was inserted by section 120(3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993."
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      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 156(4A) was inserted by section 120(4) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993."
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