A Certified Home Inspector is a person certified by a Certification Scheme - that is they exist on the Home Inspector Register - as being qualified to carry out a Home Inspection and produce a Home Condition Report. The exact criteria for fit + proper are laid down in regulations and the Business Standards and it is the responsibility of the Certification Scheme to carry out sufficient checks to ensure those criteria are adhered to. Although covered by a different regulatory regime a Home Inspector and Energy Assessor serve synonymous roles in the product of a Home Condition Report or Energy Performance Certificate respectively. The unique identifier assigned to the Home Inspector by the Certification Scheme by which they can be identified throughout their membership of the Certification Scheme. The Certificate Number is included in the HCR. The name by which the Home Inspector is registered. This is a structured name containing prefix, first name + surname. The date that the status is/was effective from The current status of the Home Inspector e.g. Registered, Not Active, Suspended etc. Reports are only acceptable from Home Inspectors who are actually "Active" at the point that the Report is submitted for registration. Indicates whether the Home Inspector wants to be notified that a new Home Condition Report has been lodged in the HCR Register under his name. If "Yes" then the HCR Registration Operating Entity must send a written notification, preferably an e-mail to the Home Inspector's registered E-Mail Address, for every Home Condition Report that the Home Inspector produces. The address that any written correspondence can be sent to. This is not the same as the Registered Address because it may, of course, be a Post Office Box. the E-Mail address that the Authorised User can be contacted at. A free-text list of any specialisms that the Home Inspector may offer to the consumer e.g. Thatched Roofs, SBEM etc). The list is at the discretion of the Home Inspector though may eventaully evolve into a predefined list. The Name of the Company that the Home Inspector is empolyed by. Comma-delimited string of Postcode Areas and/or Postcode Outcodes that the Home Inspector covers - for example: “NN, PE18, LE27”. This is used by the General Public as part of the Search Home Inspector Register to find Home Inspectors that take work in a particular area. An empty list means that the Home Inspector does not cover any specific areas (which would be the case if they did not take privately commissioned work) and hence would not match on any Postcode based search. A list of ReportTypeCode elements that indicate what reports the assessor/inspector is allowed to undertake Home Inspector Domestic Energy Assessor A Mortgage Lender is an organisation that may lend money to the Buyer for the purpose of purchasing the Property. As part of this decision making the Mortgage Lender may use an Automated Valuation Model (AVM) to value the Property and requires access to the underlying data in the Home Condition Report or the content of the Energy Performance Certificate in order to complete this valuation. Inactive Registered Struck Off Suspended Key field definition for the Home Inspector class - used when a message requires a reference to a Home Inspexctor to be passed rather than the details. The Certification Scheme is the "regulatory" body responsible for regulating the activities of the Home Inspectors. A Certification Scheme will carry out certain primary functions in accordance with the standards, focussed around certifying, managing and regulating Home Inspectors and registering Home Condition Reports. Although covered by a different regulatory regime a Certification Scheme is synonymous with the role of an Accreditation Body in the production of an Energy Performance Certificate. The address to which any complaints should be sent. The address that any written correspondence can be sent to. This is not the same as the Registered Address because it may, of course, be a Post Office Box. the E-Mail address that the Authorised User can be contacted at. The public name by which the Authorised User is known by - this is either a personal name (e.g. "Mr John Smith") built up from the components of the Person Name if the Authorised User is an individual such as a Home Inspector or a Company Name if the Authorised User is an organisation. In the case of a individual the name may not be unique (e.g. there may be many thousands of people called "Mr John Smith") so this is information about the Authorised User rather than an identifier. A Person Name is a complex structure to capture the separate components of the name for a Person, consisting of: * A prefix e.g. "Mr", "Mrs", "Dr" etc. * First Name e.g. "John" * Middle Initial * Surname e.g. "Smith" * Suffix e.g. "PhD", "FRICS" The First Name and Surname are the only mandatory elements of a name. The name elements can then be combined in a number of different ways to produce different formats appropriate to the output context. Note that all parts of the Persons Name should be stored as uppercase strings because this makes it easier to search and index the names but some components may be converted to mixed case for printing on reports and such like. Key field definition for the Certification Scheme class. The Certificate Number is a 10-character fixed-length alphanumeric code consisting of 4 characters identifying the Certification Scheme and a 6-digit zero-padded identifier for each Home Inspector certified by that Certification Scheme. For example ABCD987654, XYZ_123456 etc.