{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/992",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Information Pack Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“agent” includes a person who—\n(a) provides advice to another in a professional capacity; or\n(b) acts on behalf of another with their authority;\n“automated valuation supplier” means a person who carries out valuations of properties for the purposes of their sale other than by means of a visual inspection of the property;\n“keeper of the register” means the Secretary of State or persons keeping the register or any part of the register on behalf of the Secretary of State;\n“primary disclosure” means one or more of the following disclosures—\n(a) an inspection of the register or a home condition report entered onto the register;\n(b) the taking or giving of electronic or paper copies of the register or a home condition report entered onto the register; or\n(c) the giving of information contained in or derived from the register or a home condition report entered onto the register;\n“report reference number” means the number assigned to a home condition report in accordance with regulation 41;\n“request” includes an electronic or automated request;\n“register” means the register of home condition reports described in section 165 of the 2004 Act and further described in this Part, and includes parts of the register;\n“secondary disclosure” means a disclosure of a home condition report or its contents where that information has been obtained by virtue of a primary disclosure; and\n“seller” does not include former sellers.\n(2) In this Part, references to a home condition report include—\n(a) part of a home condition report; and\n(b) a summary or explanation of a home condition report.\n(3) In this Part, references to the obtaining, keeping or storing of a document or information include the obtaining, keeping or storing of such a document or information in any form.\n(4) In this Part, a disclosure includes—\n(a) a primary or secondary disclosure; and\n(b) leaving or storing information in a place where it may be visible to another person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 165(7) of the Housing Act 2004, a disclosure not made in accordance with these Regulations contravenes section 165(4) and a person making such a disclosure is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/992/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:31.349662+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."
}