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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-limits-on-discount-order-1998/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2997",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-limits-on-discount-order-1998",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Maximum discounts",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a dwelling-house in a region specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this order, the sum specified in column 2 of that Schedule is the prescribed sum for the purposes of section 131(2) (maximum sum by which the price payable for a dwelling-house on a conveyance or grant under Part V of the Housing Act 1985 may be reduced by discount in accordance with section 129).\n(2) A region specified in column 1 of the Schedule is the region of that name specified in Schedule 1 to the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 129 is amended by section 2 of the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 45."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/498",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (Amendment) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2997/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:26.158532+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."
}