Regulation 4 Scope of regulations 5 and 8

(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), regulations 5 and 8 apply in respect of a local authority—

(a)

granting access to property records; or

(b)

answering enquiries about a property,

whether it does so under a power or duty, created or imposed by any enactment.

(2)

Regulations 5 and 8 do not apply—

(a)

to anything in respect of which a local authority may or must impose a charge apart from these Regulations; or

(b)

in respect of access to free statutory information, except to the extent that a local authority is providing a service which is supplementary or incidental to that described in the enactment in question.

(3)

Regulations 5 and 8 do not apply in respect of anything done in the course of exercising an excepted function.