{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of prospective buyer or prospective tenant",
  "text": "A person becomes a prospective buyer or prospective tenant in relation to a building or building unit on the earliest of the dates when that person—\n(a) requests any information about the building or building unit from the owner for the purpose of deciding whether to buy or lease the building or building unit;\n(b) makes a request to view the building for the purpose of deciding whether to buy or lease the building or building unit; or\n(c) makes an offer, whether oral or written, to buy or lease the building or building unit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (1.10.2012) by The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/208), regs. 1(1), 4 (with reg. 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/309/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:55.482810+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."
}