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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-acquire-regulations-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-155",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/155",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "155",
  "heading": "Repayment of discount on early disposal",
  "text": "(1) A conveyance of the freehold or grant of a lease in pursuance of this Part shall contain (unless, in the case of a conveyance or grant in pursuance of the right to acquire, there is no discount) a covenant binding on the tenant and his successors in title to the following effect.\n(2) The covenant shall be to pay to the landlord on demand, if within a period of three years there is a relevant disposal which is not an exempted disposal (but if there is more than one such disposal, then only on the first of them), the discount to which the tenant was entitled, reduced by one third for each complete year which has elapsed after the conveyance or grant and before the disposal.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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