The Land Registration (Solicitor to H M Land Registry) Regulations 1990

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Land Registration (Solicitor to H M Land Registry) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st January 1991.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations:

(a) “the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;

(b) “a qualified person” means a person who has a 10 year general qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(1); and

(c) “the Rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925(2).

Solicitor to H M Land Registry

3.  The acts of the registrar to which this regulation applies may be done by a registrar, being a qualified person, who shall be called the Solicitor to H M Land Registry.

Acts of the registrar which may be done by the Solicitor to H M Land Registry

4.  Regulation 3 applies to the acts of the registrar which are authorised or required to be done in pursuance of:

(a) the provisions of the Act specified in the first column of Part I of the Schedule to the extent specified in the second column thereof; and

(b) the provisions of the Rules specified in the first column of Part II of the Schedule to the extent specified in the second column thereof.

Vacancy in office of, or absence of, Solicitor to H M Land Registry

5.—(1) During a vacancy in the office of, or in the absence of, the Solicitor to H M Land Registry, the acts of the registrar to which regulation 3 applies may be done by another registrar who is a qualified person.

(2) Any registrar acting under the authority of paragraph (1) shall, while so acting, be styled Acting Solicitor to H M Land Registry.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 1st November 1990