PART 4ASSEMBLY AND ACCURACY OF HOME INFORMATION PACKS

Updating of required pack documents

18.—(1) This regulation applies to any document included in a home information pack under regulation 8 (including that regulation as modified by regulation 10).

(2) Where the responsible person amends such a document or obtains or creates a further version of it, he must—

(a)include the amended document or the further version in the pack;

(b)amend accordingly such translations, additional versions, summaries or explanations as are included in the pack under regulation 9(a), 9(b) or 9(c) or include a further version of such translations, additional versions, summaries or explanations; and

(c)subject to paragraph (4), remove such documents as have been wholly superseded by a document included under sub-paragraphs (a) or (b).

(3) The time the responsible person amends a document or obtains or creates a further version of it under paragraph (2) becomes the first point of marketing for that document—

(a)for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations that requires the age or currency of a pack document to be determined by reference to a period preceding the first point of marketing; and

(b)until such time (if any) as a further first point of marketing arises in relation to the sale under regulation 3(4).

(4) Nothing in paragraph (2)(c) authorises a person to remove from a pack a home condition report complying with Schedule 5 (or any part of such a report), unless it has been included in contravention of regulation 11.