{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/long-residential-tenancies-principal-forms-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3008",
  "legislation_title": "The Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/long-residential-tenancies-principal-forms-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 16th December 1997\nComing into force 15th January 1998\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraphs 4(1), 6(1), 10 and 12(1) of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 42; see the definition of “prescribed” in section 45(1) of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), which has effect by virtue of paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 10 to the 1989 Act."
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  "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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