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Housing Act 2004

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165Register of home condition reports

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(1)Where the provision mentioned in section 164(3) is made in relation to an approved certification scheme, regulations under section 163 may make provision for and in connection with a register of the home condition reports made by members of the scheme.

(2)The regulations may provide for the register to be kept—

(a)by (or on behalf of) the Secretary of State; or

(b)by such other person as the regulations may specify.

(3)The regulations may require a person wishing to enter a home condition report onto the register to pay such fee as may be prescribed.

(4)No person may disclose—

(a)the register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it; or

(b)any information contained in, or derived from, the register,

except in accordance with any provision of the regulations which authorises or requires such a disclosure to be made.

(5)The provision which may be made under subsection (1) includes (without prejudice to the generality of that subsection) provision as to circumstances in which or purposes for which a person or a person of a prescribed description—

(a)may (on payment of such fee, if any, as may be prescribed)—

(i)inspect the register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it;

(ii)take or be given copies of the register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it; or

(iii)be given information contained in, or derived from, the register; or

(b)may disclose anything obtained by virtue of provision made under paragraph (a).

(6)The purposes which may be so prescribed may be public purposes or purposes of private undertakings or other persons.

(7)A person who contravenes subsection (4) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(8)Nothing in this section limits the power to make regulations under section 163.

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