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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-acquire-regulations-1997/schedule-6/paragraph-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-acquire-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a charge (however created or arising) on the freehold where the freehold is conveyed in pursuance of the right to acquire.\n(2) If the charge is not a tenant’s incumbrance and is not a rentcharge the conveyance is effective to release the freehold from the charge provided that—\n(a) the landlord has complied with the requirements imposed on the landlord by paragraph 22, or\n(b) the holder of the charge has agreed in writing with the landlord that paragraph 22 shall not apply;\nbut the release does not affect the personal liability of the landlord or any other person in respect of any obligation which the charge was created to secure.\n(3) If the charge is a rentcharge the conveyance shall be made subject to the charge; but if the rentcharge also affects other land—\n(a) the conveyance shall contain a covenant by the landlord to indemnify the tenant and his successors in title in respect of any liability arising under the rentcharge, and\n(b) if the rentcharge is of a kind which may be redeemed under the 1977 c. 30.Rentcharges Act 1977 the landlord shall immediately after the conveyance take such steps as are necessary to redeem the rentcharge so far as it affects land owned by him.\n(4) In this paragraph “rentcharge” has the same meaning as in the Rentcharges Act 1977; and\n(a) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) land is owned by a person if he is the owner of it within the meaning of section 13(1) of that Act, and\n(b) for the purposes of that sub-paragraph and that Act land which has been conveyed by the landlord in pursuance of the right to acquire but subject to the rentcharge shall be treated as if it had not been so conveyed but had continued to be owned by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/619/schedule/6/paragraph/21",
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  "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."
}