95Effect of sales information request
(1)An estate manager who has been given a sales information request by the owner of a managed dwelling must provide the owner with any of the information requested that is within the estate manager’s possession.
(2)The estate manager must request information from another person if—
(a)the information has been requested from the estate manager in a sales information request,
(b)the estate manager does not possess the information when the request is made, and
(c)the estate manager believes that the other person possesses the information.
(3)That person must provide the estate manager with any of the information requested that is within that person’s possession.
(4)A person (“A”) must request information from another person (“B”) if—
(a)the information has been requested from A in a request under subsection (2) or this subsection (an “onward request”),
(b)A does not possess the information when the request is made, and
(c)A believes that B possesses the information.
(5)B must provide A with any of the information requested that is within B’s possession.
(6)A person who is required to provide information under this section must do so before the end of a specified period beginning with the day on which the request for the information is made.
(7)A person who—
(a)has been given a sales information request or an onward request, and
(b)as a result of not possessing the information requested, does not provide the information before the end of a specified period beginning with the day on which the request is made,
must give the person making the request a negative response confirmation.
(8)A “negative response confirmation” is a document in a specified form, and given in a specified manner, setting out—
(a)that the person is unable to provide the information requested because it is not in the person’s possession;
(b)a description of what action the person has taken to determine whether the information is in the person’s possession;
(c)any onward requests the person has made and the persons to whom they were made;
(d)an explanation of why the person was unable to obtain the information, including details of any negative response confirmation received by the person;
(e)any other specified information.
(9)A person who is required to give a negative response confirmation must do so before the end of a specified period beginning with the day after the day on which the period referred to in subsection (7)(b) ends.
(10)The appropriate authority may by regulations—
(a)provide that an onward request may not be made until the end of a particular period, or until another condition is met;
(b)provide for how an onward request is to be made;
(c)make provision as to the period within which an onward request must be made;
(d)provide for circumstances in which a duty to comply with a sales information request or an onward request does not apply;
(e)make provision as to how information requested in a sales information request or an onward request is to be provided;
(f)make provision for circumstances in which a period specified for the purposes of subsection (6), (7) or (9) is to be extended.
(11)In this section and sections 96 and 97, “onward request” has the meaning given in subsection (4)(a).
(12)A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to the negative procedure.