Section 22: General application conditions
82.This section sets out the general conditions with which all applications have to comply. Section 4 of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 made only minimal provision for applications for registration.
83.Subsection (1)(a) is a requirement that the application allows the Keeper to comply with the Keeper’s duties under Part 1. The main duties in question are:
the duties under sections 6 to 9 to enter what those sections provide for into the relevant sections of a title sheet; and
the duty in section 14(1) to include copies of relevant documents in the archive record in relation to the application.
84.Subsections (1)(b) and (2) prevent any application that relates to a so-called “souvenir plot” (that is, a plot that is very small and of no practical use to anyone) from being accepted.
85.The effect of subsection (1)(c) is that where subordinate legislation (made under section 9G of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 as inserted by section 97) sets out requirements as to the type of document and level of authentication required for registration of an electronic document, an application for registration has to comply with the terms of the relevant subordinate legislation to be accepted. Traditional documents are required to comply with the rules already in section 6 of the 1995 Act.
86.Subsection (1)(d) provides that an application must comply with requirements as to form that are specified in the Land Register rules (see section 115).