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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxes-management-act-1970/section-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxes-management-act-1970/section-117.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/9",
  "legislation_title": "Taxes Management Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxes-management-act-1970",
  "path": "section/117",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Action of ejectment in Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "Unless other provision is made in that behalf by any enactment, an action of ejectment in Northern Ireland for non-payment of rent shall not be defeated on the ground that the person liable to pay the rent is entitled under the Income Tax Acts to a deduction which would reduce the amount due by him below a year’s rent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "See theNorthern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36), s.40andSch.5 para.1—includes, from appointed day, a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/9/section/117",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:31.747484+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."
}