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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997",
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  "number": "185",
  "heading": "Meaning of “secure tenancy” and “secure tenant”",
  "text": "(1) References in this Part to a secure tenancy or a secure tenant in relation to a time before 26th August 1984 are to a tenancy which would have been a secure tenancy if Chapter II of Part I of the 1980 c. 51.Housing Act 1980 and Part I of the 1984 c. 29.Housing and Building Control Act 1984 and had then been in force or to a person who would then have been a secure tenant.\n(2) For the purpose of determining whether a person would have been a secure tenant and his tenancy a secure tenancy—\n(a) a predecessor of a local authority shall be deemed to have been such an authority, and\n(b) a housing association shall be deemed to have been registered if it is or was a registered social landlord at any later time.",
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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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