Housing Act 1988

97 Information etc. for applicant

(1) Within four weeks of the relevant date, the landlord shall serve on the applicant a notice specifying—

(a) the name and address of every tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house which the buildings proposed to be acquired by virtue of section 93(1)(a) above comprise or contain; and

(b) the general nature of his tenancy or licence.

(2) As from four weeks after that date, the applicant shall have the following rights, namely—

(a) a right of access, at any reasonable time and on giving reasonable notice, to any property proposed to be acquired which is not subject to a tenancy;

(b) a right, on giving reasonable notice, to be provided with a list of any documents to which subsection (3) below applies;

(c) a right to inspect, at any reasonable time and on giving reasonable notice, any documents to which that subsection applies; and

(d) a right, on payment of a reasonable fee, to be provided with a copy of any documents inspected under paragraph (c) above.

(3) This subsection applies to any document in the possession of the landlord—

(a) sight of which is reasonably required for the purpose of pursuing the application; and

(b) which, on a proposed sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser of the property proposed to be acquired, the landlord, as vendor, would be expected to make available to the purchaser (whether at or before contract or completion).

(4) In this section “document” has the same meaning as in Part I of the [1968 c. 64.] Civil Evidence Act 1968.