The Home Information Pack Regulations 2007

Enquiries and responses

2.—(1) The search report required by regulation 9(m) must contain—

(a) the enquiries (or requests) set out in sub-paragraph (1) of each paragraph of Part 2; and

(b) in relation to each such enquiry (or request), a response in the terms set out in sub-paragraph (2) of each such paragraph, which is the appropriate response as regards the property.

(2) Only one of the alternative responses in sub-paragraph (2) of each paragraphs 3 to 11 and 13 to 24 may be the appropriate response.

(3) Where the search report is made using a document which reproduces all of the enquiries (or requests) and responses set out in Part 2, such of those responses as are not appropriate must be deleted or struck out.

(4) Where a response set out in sub-paragraph (2) of a paragraph of Part 2—

(a) includes words highlighted in italics which request the giving of information about specified matters—

(i) the appropriate response or the search report must include the information to which those matters refer; and

(ii) where information is so included and the search report is made using a document which reproduces that response, the words in italics may be deleted or struck out; and

(b) refers to an additional document being included, that document must accompany the search report required by regulation 9(m).