{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-provision-of-information-regulations-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-provision-of-information-regulations-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/859",
  "legislation_title": "The Estate Agents (Provision of Information) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-provision-of-information-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 18(4) of the Estate Agents Act 1979 empowers the Secretaryof State to require that additional information be given to the clientsof persons engaging in estate agency work and to stipulate the time andthe manner in which that obligation, as well as the obligation to giveother information required by section 18, is to be performed.\nThese Regulations precribe that information as to the services beingoffered to prospective purchasers be given (Regulation 2), that thisinformation, as well as information about remuneration, be given at atime before the client becomes committed to the estate agent (Regulation3) and that it be given in writing (Regulation 4). Provision is alsomade for the form in which certain terms used by estate agents inconnection with their entitlement to remuneration are to be explained(Regulation 5 and the Schedule) and as to the prominence and legibilityof those explanations (Regulation 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/859/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:26.534496+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."
}