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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-service-charges-order-1986/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/2195",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Buy) (Service Charges) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-service-charges-order-1986",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this order—\n“the estimates” means the estimates contained in the notice,\n“index figure” means an index figure in the “Public sector housing Repair and maintenance cost Index” in the “Housing and Construction Statistics” published from time to time by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, but does not include a provisional index figure,\n“notice” means a notice under section 125 of the Housing Act 1985 and\n“relevant charge” means a service charge or an improvement contribution to which the provisions of paragraph 16B or 16C of Part III of Schedule 6 to the Housing Act 1985 are or may be relevant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 125(4) was substituted by section 4(1) of the Housing and Planning Act 1986."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "paragraphs 16B and 16C were inserted by section 4(4) of the Housing and Planning Act 1986."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/2195/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:35:51.198474+00:00"
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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."
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