The Land Registration Rules 2000

Rule 2(3)

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments to the Matrimonial Home Rights Rules

1.  In rule 6 omit paragraph (3).

2.  For rule 7 substitute—

“7.— (1) An official cetificate giving the result of the search shall be issued in one or more of the following ways:

(a) in documentary form;

(b) during the currency of any relevant notice given pursuant to rule 9, and subject to and in accordance with the limitation contained in that notice, by any means of communication, other than the means referred to in sub-paragraph (a).

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), an official certificate of result of search issued under paragraph (1) shall include the information specified in Schedule 2.

(3) Where the official certificate of result of search is issued under paragraph (1)(a) as part of, or together with, the applicant’s Form MH3 or a copy of that form, it need not include any of the information specified in Schedule 2 which appears on that form.

(4) Where an official certificate of result of search is issued under paragraph (1)(b) and another official certificate of result of search is to be, or has been, issued under paragraph (1)(a) in respect of the same application, it need only include the information specified at E of Schedule 2.”.

4.  In paragraph B of Schedule 2 substitute “the day before the day on which the search is commenced” for “the date of the last day the Registry was open to the public prior to the day on which the search is commenced”.

5.  For form MH3 in Schedule 1, substitute the form which follows.