(1) The title of this Order is the Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) (Disapplication) (Wales) Order 2009.
(2) This Order comes into force on the same day as the day on which Regulations revoking the Local Authorities (Charges for Land Searches) Regulations 1994 come into force.
(3) This Order applies only to local authorities in Wales.
SourceS.I. 2009/55 (W.)
The Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) (Disapplication) Wales) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/55 (W.))
This Order disapplies section 93(1) of the Local Government Act 2003 in Wales in connection with certain property searches. The Welsh best value authorities to which this Order applies are set out in article 4.
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(1) In this Order, βaccess to property recordsβ (β mynediad i gofnodion eiddo β) means access to property records granted by a local authority in any of the following waysβ
(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 βaccess to property recordsβ (β mynediad i gofnodion eiddo β) is to be construed accordingly.
(2) In this Order, a reference to a local authority βanswering enquiries about a propertyβ (β ateb ymholiadau ynghylch eiddo β) meansβ
(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 Orderβ
βpropertyβ (β eiddo β) means a specified building or structure or specified land in relation to which property records are held by a local authority; and
βproperty recordsβ (β cofnodion eiddo β) β
includes documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority), which relate to a property;
includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but
excludes the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975 .
Section 93(1) of the Local Government Act 2003 does not apply in relation to the best value authorities named in article 4, when granting access to property records or answering enquiries about a property.
The best value authorities to which this Order applies are county councils and county borough councils in Wales .
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