{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-england-charges-for-property-searches-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110849942",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (England) (Charges for Property Searches) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-england-charges-for-property-searches-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, “access to property records” means access to property records granted by a local authority in any of the following ways—\n(a) allowing a person to inspect or search property records at a place designated by the authority for doing so;\n(b) allowing the making of or providing copies of, property records; or\n(c) the electronic transmission of property records, or copies of such records,\nand in these Regulations, the expression “access to property records” is to be construed accordingly.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference to a local authority “answering enquiries about a property” means—\n(a) the answering by the authority of any specific oral or written enquiries from a person about a property or property records; or\n(b) the carrying out by the authority of any activities for the purposes of answering such enquiries.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“financial year” means a period of twelve consecutive months ending with 31st March;\n“free statutory information” means information required to be provided by a local authority under an enactment, where that enactment expressly—\n(a) prohibits a local authority from making a charge for doing so; or\n(b) requires that the authority provides the information free of charge;\n“local authority” means—\n(a) a county council;\n(b) a district council;\n(c) a London Borough Council;\n(d) the Common Council of the City of London; and\n(e) the Council of the Isles of Scilly;\n“internal transaction” means the granting of access to property records by one department of a local authority to another department of that authority;\n“property” means a specified building or structure or specified land in relation to which property records are held by a local authority;\n“property records”—\n(a) includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;\n(b) includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but\n(c) excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975;\n“request” includes a written, oral, electronic or automated request; and\n“unit charge” means the charge described in regulation 6(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110849942/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:37.576625+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."
}