Law of Property Act 1922

Power to make general rules.

25 Provision may be made by general rules under section one hundred and eleven, as amended by the Act of 1897, for all or any of the following purposes:—

(a) For making such adaptations as changes in the general law (including changes effected by the Law of Property Act, 1922) may render expedient, with a view to the practice under the Acts being from time to time adapted, so far as expedient, to the practice in force in regard to unregistered land :

(b) For enabling the registrar, without further investigation, to accept a title as absolute or good leasehold, in proper cases, on the faith of certificates given by counsel or solicitors or both:

(c) For clearing the registered title on suitable occasions, and for enabling the registrar to permit any person interested to inspect entries on the register which have been cancelled, whether or not the title has been closed :

(d) For giving notice on land certificates of the general effect of registration:

(e) For the registration, by way of notice, on the first registration of the land of any easement, right, or privilege created by an instrument and operating at law which appears to affect adversely the land, and so far as practicable by reference to the instrument creating the same:

(f) For enabling any person who acquires any such easement, right, or privilege after the date of first registration of the land to require (subject to notice being given to the owner of the servient land) entry to be made in the register of notice of the same, and so far as practicable by reference to the instrument creating the right:

(g) For enabling the first or any subsequent registered proprietor to require that notice of his title to any such right, or interest, whether acquired under an instrument or by prescription or otherwise, being appurtenant or appendant to the registered land, be entered on the register, and, so far as practicable, by reference to the instrument (if any) creating the right, or interest, and for prescribing the effect of any such entry:

(h) For providing for the registration of a rentcharge in possession (either perpetual or for a term of years absolute) or mines and minerals when held separately from the surface and as to notices to be entered of any exception of mines and minerals; and for preventing the registration of the benefit of any easement, right, privilege or restrictive covenant otherwise than as belonging to registered land :

(i) For regulating the procedure on application for first registration, provided that the applicant or his solicitor shall not be bound to make any declaration where a documentary title is shown, which would operate as a guarantee in regard to matters not disclosed by the abstract; for defining the effect of registration with a good leasehold title ; and for enabling registration with a possessory title to be effected provisionally pending the investigation of the title :

(j) For regulating the issue and forms of certificates, and, if deemed desirable, for prescribing any special notification on the certificate to be given by way of warning when incumbrances, notices, and other adverse entries appear on the register :

(k) For providing for the cases in which the registrar may grant a certificate that an intended disposition is authorised, and will be registered if presented :

(l) For prescribing the form and effect of priority notices, and of priority cautions and inhibitions :

(m) For enabling a registered proprietor of land or a charge to register not more than three addresses (including, if he thinks fit, the address of his solicitor or firm of solicitors) to which notices are to be sent:

(n) For providing any special precautions to be taken against forgery when the land certificate or certificate of charge is not in the possession of the registered proprietor.