Article 2 Interpretation

(1)

In this Order, “access to property records” means access to property records granted by a local authority in any of the following ways—

(a)

allowing a person to inspect or search property records at a place designated by the authority for doing so;

(b)

allowing the making of or providing copies of, property records; or

(c)

the electronic transmission of property records, or copies of such records,

and in this Order, the expression “access to property records” is to be construed accordingly.

(2)

In this Order, a reference to a local authority “answering enquiries about a property” means—

(a)

the answering by the authority of any specific oral or written enquiries from a person about a property or property records; or

(b)

the carrying out by the authority of any activities for the purposes of answering such enquiries.

(3)

In this Order—

“property” means a specified building or structure or specified land in relation to which property records are held by a local authority; and
“property records”—
1. (a)
  
  includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;
2. (b)
  
  includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but
3. (c)
  
  excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975^f1.

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