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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1954/schedule-FIFTH/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/56",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1954",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where, in consequence of the failure of the competent landlord to carry out initial repairs, the amount of any payment of rent is reduced under paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule to this Act, and the competent landlord is not the immediate landlord of the tenant, the person who is for the time being the immediate landlord shall be entitled to recover from the competent landlord the amount of the reduction.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:51.039918+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."
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