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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Occupying accommodation: general rule",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this Part, the accommodation which the claimant occupies as the claimant's home or, if the claimant is a member of a family, the claimant and the claimant's family occupy as their home, is the accommodation which is normally occupied as the home.\n(2) In determining whether accommodation is the accommodation normally occupied as the home for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), regard shall be had to any other dwelling occupied by the claimant or, if the claimant is a member of a family, by the claimant and the claimant's family whether or not that other dwelling is in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/176/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:28.382665+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."
}