Acceptance notices
6.—(1) Where the recipient of an offer notice wishes to accept the offer, it must do so within the period of 8 weeks beginning with the date of receipt of the notice.
(2) Acceptance of an offer must be by acceptance notice, in which the recipient of the offer notice must either—
(a)itself accept the offer; or
(b)nominate another person to accept the offer in accordance with regulation 8.
(3) The service of an acceptance notice by any person entitled to do so does not confer any right on the owner of the property to require that person to purchase the property unless and until that person enters into a binding contract for sale in accordance with regulation 10.