{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1503",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Information Pack Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Insurance cover for third party contractual rights",
  "text": "The person preparing the search reports required by regulation 8(n) or 8(o) must do so on terms ensuring that—\n(a) any liability of any type arising under paragraph 5 of this Schedule is the subject of a contract of insurance against such risk effected by, and to be carried out by persons so authorised for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any liability for financial loss arising under paragraph 5 of this Schedule will be met by financial compensation to be paid by a person (other than the persons described in paragraph 5(a)(i) to (iii) of this Schedule) who is—\n(i) a party to the contract of insurance; or\n(ii) another person involved in the sale of the property; and\n(c) such financial compensation is paid by a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), if any person mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) fails to pay it (or no longer exists and has no successor).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1503/schedule/8/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:27:45.032197+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."
}