{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-town-planning-c-act-1919/section-40",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/9-10/35",
  "legislation_title": "Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-town-planning-c-act-1919",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Construction.",
  "text": "This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and any provisions of this Part of this Act which supersede or amend any provisions of the principal Act shall be deemed to be part of that Part of the principal Act in which the provisions superseded or amended are contained, and references in this Part of this Act to, the principal Act or to any provision of the principal Act shall be construed as references to that Act or provision as amended by any subsequent enactment, including this Part of this Act;\nIn this Part of this Act—\nThe expression \" houses for the working classes \" has the same meaning as the expression \"lodging-houses for the working classes \" has in the principal Act;\nThe expression \" sale \" includes sale in consideration of an annual rentcharge, and the expression \"sell\" has a corresponding meaning;\nThe expression \" public utility society \" means a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 to 1913, the rules whereof prohibit the payment of any interest or dividend at a rate exceeding six per cent. per annum ;\nThe expression \" housing trust \" means a corporation or body of persons which, by the terms of its constituent instrument, is required to devote the whole of its funds, including any surplus which may arise from its operations, to the provision of houses for persons the majority of whom are in fact members of the working classes, and to other purposes incidental thereto ;\nThe expression \" building byelaws \" includes byelaws made by any local authority under section one hundred and fifty-seven of the Public Health Act, 1875, as amended by any subsequent enactment, with respect to new buildings including the drainage thereof and new streets, and any enactments in any local Acts dealing with the construction and drainage of new buildings and the laying out and construction of new streets, and any byelaws made with respect to such matters under any such local Act,",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/9-10/35/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:00:15.420359+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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