Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. New Homes Ombudsman scheme Section 138: "Relevant owner", "new build home" and "developer" Effect
This section defines the key concepts used in sections 136 and 137: who is a relevant owner, what is a new build home, and what is a relevant interest in land. This section also defines who is a developer, the category used to establish who may become a member of the New Homes Ombudsman scheme.
	This section also allows the relevant national authority to set out, in regulations, an additional category of persons (for example by reference to their connection with a "developer" as defined in the first part of this section), so that anyone of such a description is also a "developer" for the purpose of the legislation.
	This section also provides a description of who the relevant national authority is in relation to homes in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.