{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-undesirable-practices-no-2-order-1991/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-undesirable-practices-no-2-order-1991/schedule-3/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The Estate Agents (Undesirable Practices) (No. 2) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-undesirable-practices-no-2-order-1991",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n(a) in paragraph 1 a misrepresentation is“recklessly” made if it is made regardless of whether it is true or false,whether or not the estate agent had reasons for believing that it mightbe false;\n(b) “offer” in paragraphs 1 and 2 includes any conditional offer, but does notinclude offers of a description which the client has indicated inwriting to the estate agent need not be forwarded to him;\n(c) paragraph 1(a) does not affect the right of an auctioneer to bid atan auction in accordance with section 6 of the Sale of Land by AuctionAct 1867 or in Scotland any rule of law of like effect;\n(d) the“status of any prospective purchaser” in paragraph 1(b) includes the financial standing of that purchaserand his ability to exchange contracts expeditiously or in Scotlandconclude a contract expeditiously;\n(e) “forward” in paragraph 2 means despatch to the client by hand, post or fax atthe address or to the number given by the client to the estate agent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "30 & 31 Vict. c.48."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/692",
      "affecting_title": "The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1032/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
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  "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."
}