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<Text>In <ExternalLink Title="Housing Act 1988 section 8" URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/section/8" id="i00096">section 8</ExternalLink> of <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50" id="c00011" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1988" Number="50">the 1988 Act</Citation>, after <ExternalLink Title="Housing Act 1988 section 8" URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/section/8/6/" id="i00098">subsection (6)</ExternalLink> insert—</Text>
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<Text>Regulations made under section 45(1) by virtue of subsection (3) may—</Text>
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<Text>provide for the form to be published by the Secretary of State;</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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