# The Local Authorities (England) (Charges for Property Searches) Regulations 2008, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(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—
(a) prohibits a local authority from making a charge for doing so; or
(b) requires that the authority provides the information free of charge;
“local authority” means—
(a) a county council;
(b) a district council;
(c) a London Borough Council;
(d) the Common Council of the City of London; and
(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”—
(a) includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;
(b) includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but
(c) excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975;
“request” includes a written, oral, electronic or automated request; and
“unit charge” means the charge described in regulation 6(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110849942/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-england-charges-for-property-searches-regulations-2008/regulation-2
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