{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-green-deal-framework-disclosure-acknowledgment-redress-etc-regulations-2012/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-green-deal-framework-disclosure-acknowledgment-redress-etc-regulations-2012/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111525227",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-green-deal-framework-disclosure-acknowledgment-redress-etc-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Disclosure and acknowledgment in circumstances described in regulation 45",
  "text": "(1) Where this regulation applies, C must—\n(a) free of charge, provide D with—\n(i) the disclosure document for the property; or\n(ii) if the obligation in section 8(4) has not yet been complied with, a document containing the same information in connection with the green deal plan as the disclosure document would have contained; and\n(b) secure that the document which effects the transfer of ownership to D includes an acknowledgment by D that, as the bill payer at the property, D will be—\n(i) liable to pay green deal instalments; and\n(ii) bound by the terms of the green deal plan which bind a bill payer.\n(2) The requirement in paragraph (1)(a) must be satisfied—\n(a) no later than seven days before the transaction or arrangement is to be entered into; or\n(b) where compliance with sub-paragraph (a) is not practicable, as soon as practicable before the transaction or arrangement is to be entered into.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In respect of England and Wales, the Secretary of State has prescribed the form that the acknowledgment required by this regulation must take. See the Green Deal (Acknowledgment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. [ ]), which were made under section 15(3) of the Act. The Scottish Ministers have prescribed the form of acknowledgment for Scotland. See the Green Deal (Acknowledgment) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. [ ]), which were made under section 15(4) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The terms of the plan which bind a bill payer are set out in regulation 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525227/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:40.777008+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."
}