{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-undesirable-practices-order-1991/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-undesirable-practices-order-1991/schedule-3/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/861",
  "legislation_title": "The Estate Agents (Undesirable Practices) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-undesirable-practices-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,which despatch may be made by the person by whom or which the service isbeing, or is to be, provided.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "30 & 31 Vict. c.48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/861/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:25.274209+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."
}