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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-green-deal-framework-disclosure-acknowledgment-redress-etc-regulations-2012/regulation-62",
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  "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/62",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Breach of the disclosure and acknowledgment provisions",
  "text": "(1) A breach of the disclosure and acknowledgment provisions occurs where paragraph (2) or (3) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies where the notifier has failed to provide the disclosure document relating to a green deal property to the recipient in accordance with, as applicable, section 12 or chapter 2 of Part 7 of these Regulations.\n(3) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) the bill payer (“B”) suffers substantive loss which arises because—\n(i) the disclosure document relating to a green deal property which was received by the recipient did not comply with the requirements of the Energy Performance Regulations;\n(ii) the disclosure document was received by the recipient after the specified time; or\n(iii) the recipient did not give an acknowledgment; and\n(b) a reasonable period of time before the commitment date, B did not know that—\n(i) B would be liable to make payments under the green deal plan; or\n(ii) B would be bound by the terms of the green deal plan which bind a bill payer.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation,—\n“commitment date” means—\n(a) where section 12 applied, the date on which the contract for sale or lease or licence agreement was entered into;\n(b) where regulation 44, 46 or 50 applied, the date on which the transaction or arrangement was entered into;\n“required document” means—\n(a) the contract for sale or lease, or the licence agreement referred to in section 14(2), which is required to include the acknowledgment;\n(b) the document which is required to contain the acknowledgment under chapter 2 of Part 7;\n“specified time” means—\n(a) where section 12(1) applied, the time specified for providing the energy performance certificate in the Green Deal (Disclosure) Regulations 2012;\n(b) where regulation 44, 46 or 50 applied, the time specified in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S.I. 2012/[ ]."
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525227/regulation/62",
    "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."
}