The Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) (Disapplication) Wales) Order 2009

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order, “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 this Order, the expression “access to property records” (“mynediad i gofnodion eiddo”) is to be construed accordingly.

(2) In this Order, 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 property records; or

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

(3) In this Order—

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

“property records” (“cofnodion eiddo”) —

(a)

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

(b)

includes information derived from such documents, registers, files and archives; but

(c)

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

(1)

1975 c. 76.