The Home Information Pack (No. 2) Regulations 2007

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation – general provisions

   3. 3. Interpretation – first point of marketing

3. PART 2 HOME INFORMATION PACK - GENERAL PROVISIONS

   1. 4. Required, authorised and excluded documents

   2. 5. The home information pack

   3. 6. Copies of a home information pack

   4. 7. Comprehension of documents

4. PART 3 CONTENTS OF HOME INFORMATION PACKS

   1. 8. Required pack documents

   2. 9. Authorised pack documents

   3. 10. Creation of interests

   4. 11. Prohibitions relating to home condition reports

   5. 12. Exclusion of advertising information

5. PART 4 ASSEMBLY OF HOME INFORMATION PACKS

   1. 13. Order of pack documents

   2. 14. Time at which pack documents are to be included

   3. 15. Age of pack documents when first included

   4. 16. Energy information unobtainable before or at the first point of marketing

   5. 17. Documents required within 28 days of the first point of marketing

   6. 18. Requests for documents under this Part

   7. 19. Delivery of documents under this Part

   8. 20. Required pack documents which are completely unobtainable

6. PART 5 ACCURACY OF HOME INFORMATION PACKS

   1. 21. Updating of required pack documents

   2. 22. Updating of predicted energy assessment

   3. 23. Updating of authorised pack documents

   4. 24. Seller’s check of the home information pack

7. PART 6 EXCEPTIONS

   1. 25. Meaning of “non-residential premises”

   2. 26. Exclusion from meaning of “non-residential premises”

   3. 27. Exception for seasonal and holiday accommodation

   4. 28. Exception for mixed sales

   5. 29. Exception for dual use of a dwelling-house

   6. 30. Exception for portfolios of properties

   7. 31. Exception for unsafe properties

   8. 32. Exception for properties to be demolished

   9. 33. Exception – properties marketed before the commencement date

   10. 34. Exception – first day marketing during a temporary period

8. PART 7 ENFORCEMENT

   1. 35. Amount of penalty charge

   2. 36. Exclusion of penalty charge for content of pack documents

9. PART 8 APPROVED CERTIFICATION SCHEMES

   1. 37. Approval of certification schemes

   2. 38. Terms of approved certification schemes

   3. 39. Withdrawal of approval from certification schemes

10. PART 9 HOME CONDITION REPORT REGISTER

    1. CHAPTER 1 Interpretation

       1. 40. Interpretation of this Part

    2. CHAPTER 2 ARRANGEMENTS FOR KEEPING THE REGISTER

       1. 41. Registration of home condition reports

       2. 42. Retention of home condition reports

       3. 43. Restrictions on disclosure by the keeper of the register in pursuance of a seller’s instructions

       4. 44. Other registers

    3. CHAPTER 3 DISCLOSURE - GENERAL PROVISIONS

       1. 45. Section 157 conditions

       2. 46. Suspicion of unauthorised use

       3. 47. Commercial use by the keeper of the register

       4. 48. Responsibility for proving purposes of disclosure

       5. 49. Responsibility for proving agency

       6. 50. Possession of report reference number

    4. CHAPTER 4 AUTHORISED DISCLOSURES

       1. 51. Internal processing of information

       2. 52. Sellers and their agents

       3. 53. Potential buyers and their advisers

       4. 54. Mortgage lenders or automated valuation suppliers

       5. 55. Approved certification schemes or complaints against home inspectors

       6. 56. Enforcement officers

       7. 57. Office of Fair Trading

       8. 58. Information from which no particular property is identifiable

       9. 59. Disclosures for the purposes of the 2004 Act or these Regulations

       10. 60. Prevention of crime

       11. 61. Legal proceedings and court orders

    5. CHAPTER 5 FEES

       1. 62. Fees

11. Signature

12. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       Home information pack index

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Predicted energy assessment

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       Sale statement

    4. SCHEDULE 4

       Commonhold information

    5. SCHEDULE 5

       Leasehold information

    6. SCHEDULE 6

       General provision about searches and search reports

       1. PART 1 All search reports (other than official search certificate of the local land charges register)

       2. PART 2 Specific required search reports

    7. SCHEDULE 7

       Local enquiries

       1. PART 1 General

       2. PART 2 Enquiries

    8. SCHEDULE 8

       Drainage and water enquiries

       1. PART 1 General

       2. PART 2 Enquiries and responses

    9. SCHEDULE 9

       Home condition report

    10. SCHEDULE 10

        Additional relevant information

13. Explanatory Note