Property Misdescriptions (Specified Matters) Order 1992

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1992/2834
Year1992

1992 No. 2834

CONSUMER PROTECTION

The Property Misdescriptions (Specified Matters) Order 1992

Made 11th November 1992

Laid before Parliament 18th November 1992

Coming into force 4th April 1993

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 1 of the Property Misdescriptions Act 19911, hereby makes the following Order:

S-1 This Order may be cited as the Property Misdescriptions...

1. This Order may be cited as the Property Misdescriptions (Specified Matters) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 4th April 1993.

S-2 The matters contained in the Schedule to this Order are hereby...

2. The matters contained in the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified to the extent described in that Schedule for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991.

Denton of Wakefield

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Trade and Industry

11th November 1992

SCHEDULE

Article 2

SPECIFIED MATTERS

SCH-1.1

1. Location or address.

SCH-1.2

2. Aspect, view, outlook or environment.

SCH-1.3

3. Availability and nature of services, facilities or amenities.

SCH-1.4

4. Proximity to any services, places, facilities or amenities.

SCH-1.5

5. Accommodation, measurements or sizes.

SCH-1.6

6. Fixtures and fittings.

SCH-1.7

7. Physical or structural characteristics, form of construction or condition.

SCH-1.8

8. Fitness for any purpose or strength of any buildings or other structures on land or of land itself.

SCH-1.9

9. Treatments, processes, repairs or improvements or the effects thereof.

SCH-1.10

10. Conformity or compliance with any scheme, standard, test or regulations or the existence of any guarantee.

SCH-1.11

11. Survey, inspection, investigation, valuation or appraisal by any person or the results thereof.

SCH-1.12

12. The grant or giving of any award or prize for design or construction.

SCH-1.13

13. History, including the age, ownership or use of land or any building or fixture and the date of any alterations thereto.

SCH-1.14

14. Person by whom any building, (or part of any building), fixture or component was designed, constructed, built, produced, treated, processed, repaired, reconditioned or tested.

SCH-1.15

15. The length of time during which land has been available for sale either generally or by or through a particular person.

SCH-1.16

16. Price (other than the price at which accommodation or facilities are available and are to be provided by means of the creation or disposal of an interest in land in the circumstances specified in section 23(1)(a) and (b) of the Consumer Protection Act 19872or Article 16(1)(a) and (b) of the Consumer Protection (NI) Order 19873(which relate to the creation or disposal of certain interests in new dwellings)) and previous price.

SCH-1.17

17. Tenure or estate.

SCH-1.18

18. Length of any lease or of the unexpired term of any lease and the terms and conditions of a lease (and, in relation to land in Northern Ireland, any fee farm grant creating the relation of landlord and tenant shall be treated as a lease).

SCH-1.19

19. Amount of any ground-rent, rent or premium and frequency of any review.

SCH-1.20

20. Amount of any rent-charge.

SCH-1.21

21. Where all or any part of any land is let to a tenant or is subject to a licence, particulars of the tenancy or licence, including any rent, premium or other payment due and frequency of any review.

SCH-1.22

22. Amount of any service or maintenance charge or liability for common repairs.

SCH-1.23

23. Council tax payable in respect of a dwelling within the meaning of section 3, or in Scotland section 72, of the Local Government Finance Act 19924or the basis or any part of the basis on which that tax is calculated.

SCH-1.24

24. Rates payable in respect of a non-domestic hereditament within the meaning of section 64 of the Local Government Finance...

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