{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonhold-regulations-2004/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonhold-regulations-2004/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1829",
  "legislation_title": "The Commonhold Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonhold-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Dispensing with a requirement for consent",
  "text": "The court may dispense with the requirement for consent to an application under section 2 if a person whose consent is required—\n(a) cannot be identified after all reasonable efforts have been made to ascertain his identity;\n(b) has been identified but cannot be traced after all reasonable efforts have been made to trace him; or\n(c) has been sent the request for consent and all reasonable efforts have been made to obtain a response but he has not responded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1829/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:22:34.116987+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."
}