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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-property-act-1969/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-property-act-1969/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/59",
  "legislation_title": "Law of Property Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-property-act-1969",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Duration of short tenancies excluded from Part II of Act of 1954.",
  "text": "(1) In section 43(3) of the Act of 1954 (exclusion of certain tenancies granted for not more than three months) for the words “three months”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “six months” and for the words “six months” (in paragraph (b)) the words “twelve months”.\n(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to tenancies granted before the commencement of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1–12(1), 13 and 14 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/59/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:50.937349+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."
}