{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1968/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1968/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/71",
  "legislation_title": "Race Relations Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1968",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Housing accommodation, and business and other premises.",
  "text": "It shall be unlawful for any person having power to dispose, or being otherwise concerned with the disposal, of housing accommodation, business premises or other land to discriminate—\n(a) against any person seeking to acquire any such accommodation, premises or other land by refusing or deliberately omitting to dispose of it to him, or to dispose of it to him on the like terms and in the like circumstances as in the case of other persons ;\n(b) against any person occupying any such accommodation, premises or other land, by deliberately treating him differently from other such occupiers in the like circumstances ; or\n(c) against any person in need of any such accommodation, premises or other land by deliberately treating that other person differently from others in respect of any list of persons in need of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/71/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:34.316686+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."
}