Part 5 - Regulation of Estate Management Section 80: Right to request information
Section 80 creates a new provision that entitles owners of managed dwellings to request and receive information.
	Subsection (1) confers the right on an owner of a managed dwelling to require an estate manager carrying out estate management in relation to the dwelling to provide information specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State. Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to specify information only if it relates to estate management.
	Subsection (3) requires the estate manager to provide the owner with any of the information requested that is in their possession. Subsection (4) requires the estate manager to request information from another person if three conditions are met: (a) the information has to be requested under subsection (1); (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. Subsection (5) requires that person to provide the estate manager with any of the information requested that is in their possession.
	Subsection (6) requires a person ("A") to request the information from another person ("B") if: (a) the information has been requested from A under subsection (4) or this subsection; (b) person A does not hold that information when the request is made; and (c) person A believes that person B possesses that information. Subsection (7) requires person B to provide person A with any of the information requested that is in person B’s possession.
	Subsection (8) confers powers on the Secretary of State to make regulations to (a) specify how a request may be made; (b) provide that a request may not be made until the end of a particular period, or until after a condition is met; (c) make provision as to the period within which a request under subsection (3) or (5) must be made; (d) provide for circumstances in which a request under this Section may be refused. Subsection (9) states that Section 81 makes further provision about requests under this Section.
	Subsection (10) makes it clear that any statutory instrument containing regulations is subject to the negative procedure.