{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-accounts-regulations-1981/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-accounts-regulations-1981/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1520",
  "legislation_title": "The Estate Agents (Accounts) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-accounts-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Estate Agents (Accounts) Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 3rd May 1982.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“accounting period” means a period of not more than 12 months in respect of which accounts required to be kept under Regulation 6 below are drawn up: Provided that an accounting period may end on a date not more than seven days after the end of a period of twelve months;\n“the Act” means the Estate Agents Act 1979;\n“deposit account” at a building society means an account in which deposits are received in accordance with the rules of the society and the provisions of Part III of the Building Societies Act 1962 or the Building Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1967;\n“employee” means a person engaged in estate agency work under a contract of employment, and “employer” means his employer under that contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1520/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:32:04.430680+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."
}