4 Scope of regulations 5 and 8
1 Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), regulations 5 and 8 apply in respect of a local authority—
(a) granting access to property records; or
(b) answering enquiries about a property,
whether it does so under a power or duty, created or imposed by any enactment.
2 Regulations 5 and 8 do not apply—
(a) to anything in respect of which a local authority may or must impose a charge apart from these Regulations; or
(b) in respect of access to free statutory information, except to the extent that a local authority is providing a service which is supplementary or incidental to that described in the enactment in question.
3 Regulations 5 and 8 do not apply in respect of anything done in the course of exercising an excepted function.