{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007/regulation-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007/regulation-53.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/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Potential buyers and their advisers",
  "text": "(1) The keeper of the register may make a primary disclosure to an actual or potential buyer or his agent.\n(2) Before making a disclosure in accordance with paragraph (1), the keeper of the register may require the person seeking that disclosure to prove one or more of the following matters—\n(a) that he is an actual or potential buyer or his agent;\n(b) that the request relates to a home condition report for a property the buyer is genuinely interested in buying; or\n(c) that the request is made for the purposes of—\n(i) checking the authenticity of a home condition report; or\n(ii) checking whether any home condition reports not included in the home information pack have been completed for the purposes of the sale of the property interest by the seller.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/992/regulation/53",
    "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."
}