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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1985/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/70",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If a notice is served under paragraph 2 in a case where a superior landlord has effected, in whole or in part, the insurance of the dwelling in question and the landlord on whom the notice is served is not in possession of the relevant information—\n(a) he shall in turn by notice in writing require the person who is his landlord to give him the relevant information (and so on, if that person is not himself the superior landlord),\n(b) the superior landlord shall comply with the notice within a reasonable time, and\n(c) the immediate landlord shall then comply with the tenant’s or secretary’s notice in the manner provided by sub-paragraphs (4) to (7) of paragraph 2 within the time allowed by that paragraph or such further time, if any, as is reasonable in the circumstances.\n(2) If, in a case where a superior landlord has effected, in whole or in part, the insurance of the dwelling in question, a notice under paragraph 3 imposes a requirement relating to any policy of insurance effected by the superior landlord—\n(a) the landlord on whom the notice is served shall forthwith inform the tenant or secretary of that fact and of the name and address of the superior landlord, and\n(b) that paragraph shall then apply to the superior landlord in relation to that policy as it applies to the immediate landlord.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. added by Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (c. 31, SIF 75:1), s. 43(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(1) substituted (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(2)(a); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(1) substituted (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(1) substituted (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(2)(c); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(1) substituted (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(2)(d); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(1) substituted (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(2)(e); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(2) substituted (30.9.2003 for W. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(3)(a); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(2) substituted (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 157, 181(1), Sch. 10 para. 10(1)(3)(b); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(i) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:43.672369+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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