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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007/schedule-10/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007/schedule-10/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/992",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Information Pack Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-information-pack-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Terms for the preparation of a home condition report",
  "text": "A home inspector must prepare a home condition report on the following terms without exclusion or limitation—\n(a) that the report will be prepared with reasonable care and skill;\n(b) that the home inspector will provide in the report an objective opinion about the condition of the property;\n(c) that such an opinion will be based on his inspection;\n(d) that the home inspector will identify in the report such conditions within the property as appear to—\n(i) be defects that are serious or require urgent attention, or both;\n(ii) give rise to a need for repair or replacement; or\n(iii) give rise to further investigation;\n(e) that a responsible person may copy or issue a copy of the report for the purposes of—\n(i) regulations 6, 7, 10(a) and 25; and\n(ii) section 156(1), (2) and (11) of the 2004 Act; and\n(f) that any person may do one or more of the following for the purposes of a disclosure or other act authorised by Part 9—\n(i) copy a report;\n(ii) issue a copy of a report;\n(iii) rent or lend a report;\n(iv) communicate a report; or\n(v) make an adaptation of a report or do any of the above in relation to an adaptation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/992/schedule/10/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}