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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1927/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1927/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/17-18/36",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1927",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1927",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the payment of compensation for improvements and goodwill to tenants of premises used for business purposes, or the grant of a new lease in lieu thereof; and to amend the law of landlord and tenant.\n[22nd December 1927]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: certain functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(3), Sch. 8 para. 33; Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190(1), Sch. 25 para. 1(3) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58) and Electricity Act 1989 (c.29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(1)(3), Sch. 16 para. 1(2), Sch. 17 paras. 33. 35(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act amended (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(4); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 25.3.1928 by 26(2) (since repealed)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/36/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:47.105764+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."
}