The Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches)(Wales) Regulations 2009

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations “access to property records” (“mynediad i gofnodion eiddo”) means access to property records granted by a local authority in any of the following ways—

(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 these Regulations the expression “access to property records” is to be construed accordingly.

(2) In these Regulations a reference to a local authority “answering enquiries about a property” (“ateb ymholiadau ynghylch eiddo”) means—

(a) the answering by the authority of any specific oral or written enquiries from a person about a property or about property records; or

(b) the carrying out by the authority of any activities for the purposes of answering such enquiries.

(3) In these Regulations—

• “financial year” (“blwyddyn ariannol”) means a period of twelve consecutive months ending with 31 March;

• “free statutory information” (“gwybodaeth statudol am ddim”) means information required to be provided by a local authority under an enactment where that enactment expressly—

  (a)

  prohibits a local authority from making a charge for doing so; or

  (b)

  requires that the authority provides the information free of charge;

• “local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county council or county borough council;

• “internal transaction” (“trafodiad mewnol”) means the granting of access to property records by one department of a local authority to another department of that authority;

• “property” (“eiddo”) means a specified building or structure or specified land in relation to which property records are held by a local authority;

• “property records” (“cofnodion eiddo”)—

  (a)

  include documents, registers, files and archives (held in any form by the local authority) which relate to a property;

  (b)

  include information about a property which is derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but

  (c)

  exclude the local land charges register kept under section 3(2) of the Local Land Charges Act 1975(1);

• “request” (“cais”) includes a written, oral, electronic or automated request; and

• “unit charge” (“ffi fesul uned”) means the charge described in regulation 6(2).

(1)

1975 c. 76.