Regulation 16 Age of pack documents when first included

(1)

The documents included under the following provisions of regulation 9 (including that regulation as modified by regulation 11) must be dated no earlier than the date that falls three months before the first point of marketing—

(a)

official copies included in the home information pack under—

(i)

paragraph (f) (evidence of title for registered estates);

(ii)

paragraph (h) (required commonhold information); and

(iii)

paragraph(i) (required leasehold information);

(b)

paragraph (b) (energy performance certificate and recommendation report);

(c)

paragraph (c) (interim energy assessment);

(d)

paragraph (d) (predicted energy assessment);

(e)

a certificate of an official search of the index map included in the pack under paragraph (g)(i) (evidence of title for unregistered estates);

(f)

paragraph (k) (search of the local land charges register);

(g)

paragraph (l) (local enquiries); and

(h)

paragraph (m) (drainage and water enquiries).

(2)

All other pack documents—

(a)

may be completed or dated earlier than the date that falls three months before the first point of marketing; and

(b)

must be such versions of the documents as can reasonably be assumed to be the most recent to the first point of marketing.

(3)

Where—

(a)

a pack document has been amended at any time before its inclusion in the home information pack; and

(b)

the amendment is not incorporated in the document,

that amendment must be included in the pack.