# The Local Authorities (England) (Charges for Property Searches) (Disapplication) Order 2008, 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”—
(a) includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;
(b) includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but
(c) excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2909/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-england-charges-for-property-searches-disapplication-order-2008/article-2
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