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Regulation 2 Interpretation

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(1)

In these Regulations, “access to property records” means access to property records granted by a local authority in any of the following ways—

(a)

allowing a person to inspect or search property records at a place designated by the authority for doing so;

(b)

allowing the making of or providing copies of, property records; or

(c)

the electronic transmission of property records, or copies of such records,

and in these Regulations, the expression “access to property records” is to be construed accordingly.

(2)

In these Regulations, a reference to a local authority “answering enquiries about a property” means—

(a)

the answering by the authority of any specific oral or written enquiries from a person about a property or property records; or

(b)

the carrying out by the authority of any activities for the purposes of answering such enquiries.

(3)

In these Regulations—

  • “financial year” means a period of twelve consecutive months ending with 31st March;

  • “free statutory information” means information required to be provided by a local authority under an enactment, where that enactment expressly—

    1. (a)

      prohibits a local authority from making a charge for doing so; or

    2. (b)

      requires that the authority provides the information free of charge;

  • “local authority” means—

    1. (a)

      a county council;

    2. (b)

      a district council;

    3. (c)

      a London Borough Council;

    4. (d)

      the Common Council of the City of London; and

    5. (e)

      the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

  • “internal transaction” means the granting of access to property records by one department of a local authority to another department of that authority;

  • “property” means a specified building or structure or specified land in relation to which property records are held by a local authority;

  • “property records”—

    1. (a)

      includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;

    2. (b)

      includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but

    3. (c)

      excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975f1;

  • “request” includes a written, oral, electronic or automated request; and

  • “unit charge” means the charge described in regulation 6(2).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1975 c. 76.