{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-agriculture-act-1976/schedule-9/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/80",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-agriculture-act-1976",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A person who is occupying a dwelling-house as his residence on the operative date shall become the statutory tenant of the dwelling-house if, on the assumption that this Act and the provisions of the Rent Act 1968 which are applied by Schedule 2 to this Act, including (where relevant) any amendments to those provisions, were in force at all material times before that date, he would be a statutory tenant of the dwelling-house on that date, and this Act shall thereafter apply to him, and by reference to him, on that assumption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Para. 3 amended by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), Sch. 8 paras. 7, 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/80/schedule/9/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:31.027789+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."
}