Part 2The community right to buy

Chapter 2Registration of interests

44AF1Duty to notify changes to information relating to registered interest

1

This section applies where a community interest in land is registered in pursuance of an application under section 37.

2

Where—

a

the application contains information enabling Ministers to contact the community body which made the application, and

b

there is a change in that information,

the community body must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the change, notify Ministers of the change.

3

Where—

a

the application contains information enabling Ministers to contact the owner of the land to which the application relates, and

b

there is a change in that information,

the owner must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the change, notify Ministers of the change.

4

Where—

a

the application contains information relating to a creditor in a standard security over an interest in the land, and

b

there is a change in that information,

the owner of the land to which the application relates must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the change, notify Ministers of the change.

5

Subsection (6) applies where—

a

there is a creditor in a standard security over an interest in the land to which the application relates, but

b

the application does not disclose the existence of the creditor (whether because the standard security did not exist at the time the application was made or otherwise).

6

The owner of the land to which the application relates must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the interest in land is registered—

a

notify Ministers of the existence of the creditor, and

b

provide Ministers with such information relating to the creditor as would enable Ministers to contact the creditor.

7

Subsection (8) applies where there is a change in information provided by a community body or an owner of land in pursuance of the duty under subsection (2), (3), (4) or (6).

8

The community body or, as the case may be, the owner of the land must as soon as reasonably practicable after the change notify Ministers of the change.