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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-property-searcheswales-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-property-searcheswales-regulations-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/369",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches)(Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-property-searcheswales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Scope of regulations 5 and 8",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), regulations 5 and 8 apply in respect of a local authority—\n(a) granting access to property records; or\n(b) answering enquiries about a property,\nwhether it does so under a power or duty created or imposed by any enactment.\n(2) Regulations 5 and 8 do not apply—\n(a) to anything in respect of which a local authority may or must impose a charge apart from these Regulations; or\n(b) in respect of access to free statutory information, except to the extent that a local authority is providing a service which is supplementary or incidental to that described in the enactment in question.\n(3) Regulations 5 and 8 do not apply in respect of anything done in the course of exercising an excepted function.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 152 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the definition of “excepted function”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/369/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:49.153175+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."
}