{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-property-searches-disapplication-wales-order-2009/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-property-searches-disapplication-wales-order-2009/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/55",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) (Disapplication) Wales) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-property-searches-disapplication-wales-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, “access to property records” (“mynediad i gofnodion eiddo”) means access to property records granted by a local authority in any of the following ways—\n(a) allowing a person to inspect or search property records at a place designated by the authority for doing so;\n(b) allowing the making of or providing copies of, property records; or\n(c) the electronic transmission of property records, or copies of such records,\nand in this Order, the expression “access to property records” (“mynediad i gofnodion eiddo”) is to be construed accordingly.\n(2) In this Order, a reference to a local authority “answering enquiries about a property” (“ateb ymholiadau ynghylch eiddo”) means—\n(a) the answering by the authority of any specific oral or written enquiries from a person about a property or property records; or\n(b) the carrying out by the authority of any activities for the purposes of answering such enquiries.\n(3) In this Order—\n“property” (“eiddo”) means a specified building or structure or specified land in relation to which property records are held by a local authority; and\n“property records” (“cofnodion eiddo”) —\n(a) includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;\n(b) includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but\n(c) excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/55/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}