F1Part IV
Initial procedures
97 Information etc. for applicant.
1
Within four weeks of the relevant date, the landlord shall serve on the applicant a notice specifying—
a
the name and address of every tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house which the buildings proposed to be acquired by virtue of section 93(1)(a) above comprise or contain; and
b
the general nature of his tenancy or licence.
2
As from four weeks after that date, the applicant shall have the following rights, namely—
a
a right of access, at any reasonable time and on giving reasonable notice, to any property proposed to be acquired which is not subject to a tenancy;
b
a right, on giving reasonable notice, to be provided with a list of any documents to which subsection (3) below applies;
c
a right to inspect, at any reasonable time and on giving reasonable notice, any documents to which that subsection applies; and
d
a right, on payment of a reasonable fee, to be provided with a copy of any documents inspected under paragraph (c) above.
3
This subsection applies to any document in the possession of the landlord—
a
sight of which is reasonably required for the purpose of pursuing the application; and
b
which, on a proposed sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser of the property proposed to be acquired, the landlord, as vendor, would be expected to make available to the purchaser (whether at or before contract or completion).
4
In this section “document” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M1Civil Evidence Act 1968.
Pt. IV (ss. 93-114) repealed (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, ss. 222, 227, Sch. 18 Pt. I para. 1, Sch. 19 Pt. IX; S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3