Citation and commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2018 and shall come into force on 6th April 2018.
Interpretation
2. In these Rules—
(1) “the principal Rules” means the Land Registration Rules 2003(1), and a reference to a rule by number is a reference to the rule so numbered in the principal Rules unless otherwise stated,
(2) “the Act” means the Land Registration Act 2002.
Amendments to the principal Rules
3. Parts 2 to 10 and 13 to 16 of the principal Rules are amended as set out in Schedule 1.
4. Schedules 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9 to the principal Rules are amended as set out in Parts 1 to 6 of Schedule 2.
Revocations
5. The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2013(2) is revoked.
6. The Land Registration (Electronic Conveyancing) Rules 2008(3), except for the amendments to the principal Rules in Part 1 of Schedule 2, are revoked.
Review
7.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—
(a)carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in rules 3 and 4 of these Rules, and
(b)publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.
(2) The first report must be published before 6th April 2023.
(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.
(4) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(4) requires that a report published under this rule must, in particular—
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a),
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved,
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate, and
(d)if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.
(5) In this rule “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).
Henley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
22nd January 2018