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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/26",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision for imposing statutory duties in connection with convenants in tenancies against assigning, underletting, charging or parting with the possession of premises without consent.\n[29th July 1988]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Act excluded (3.11.1994) by 1991 c. 53, s. 84(3)(c) (as substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 33, ss. 96, 172(4))"
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      "text": "Act excluded (1.8.2000) by 1999 c. 33, ss. 149(3)(c); S.I. 2000/1985, art. 2, Sch."
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      "text": "Act modified (prosp.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 102, 181(1), Sch. 7 para. 13"
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      "text": "Act modified (30.9.2003 for E., 30.3.2004 for W.) by Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (c. 15), s. 181(1), Sch. 7 para. 13; S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(a); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(a)"
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      "text": "Act excluded (20.3.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 10 para. 3(1)(d); S.I. 2015/778, art. 2(1)(d)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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