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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-work-act-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/7",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-work-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may issue guidance about determining, for the purposes of paragraph 1(5)(a)(iii) or (iv), what rate of rent is likely to have been payable by a tenant of particular social housing at a particular time.\n(2) Registered providers must have regard to guidance issued under sub-paragraph (1).",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 36(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(1) in force at 18.3.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2016/394, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(2) in force at 1.4.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2016/394, reg. 4"
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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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