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.