Amendment to Regulation 27 (Disclosures with reference number) of the Principal Regulations
14. After regulation 27 insert—
“Disclosures with address
27A.—(1) The keeper of the register may disclose a document to any person if the conditions in paragraph (2) are met.
(2) The conditions are that—
(a)a request for disclosure of the document has been made by means of a website operated by the keeper;
(b)the request includes—
(i)the full postal address (excluding the postcode) of the particular building to which the document relates;
(ii)the full postcode of that building; or
(iii)the name of the road or street on which, and the name of the city, town, village or townland in which, the building is located;
(c)where the request is for a document other than a display energy certificate, there is no opt-out in effect in respect of the document;
(d)the particular building to which the document relates is not an excluded building; and
(e)the person requesting the document has not reached such limit for searches as may be imposed by the Department.
(3) The keeper of the register may disclose to such a person—
(a)the document the person requested; and
(b)any document of the same kind relating to the same building or part of a building as the document requested, which was registered at any time during the period of 10 years prior to the date of the request.”.