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(5);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>sections 163 to 166;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>sections 178 and 179;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>sections 185 to 187;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-f"><num>(f)</num><content><p>section 189;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-g"><num>(g)</num><content><p>section 195(1);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-h"><num>(h)</num><content><p>paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 17, 53 and 54 of Schedule 4 and section 26 so far as it relates to those paragraphs;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>Schedules 16, 17 and 19;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="article-6-j"><num>(j)</num><intro><p>the following Parts of Schedule 25 and section 237 so far as relating to those Parts—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="article-6-j-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>Parts 26 and 27;</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-6-j-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>Part 31 except insofar as that Part repeals paragraphs 73(2) and (3) and 74(a) of Schedule 8 to the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008<authorialNote class="footnote" eId="f00008" marker="8"><p><ref eId="c00063" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/17">2008 c. 17</ref>.</p></authorialNote>.</p></content></level></level></article></body></act></akomaNtoso>