Version Superseded: 05/09/2022
Point in time view as at 01/04/2022. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012, Section 21 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 23 July 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)A person may apply to the Keeper for registration of a registrable deed.
(2)The Keeper must accept an application under subsection (1) to the extent the applicant satisfies the Keeper that, as at the date of application, the general application conditions are met and—
(a)where the application is made in respect of a disposition of, or a notice of title to, an unregistered plot, the conditions set out in section 23 are met,
(b)where section 25 applies, the conditions set out in that section are met,
(c)in any other case, the conditions set out in section 26 are met.
(3)To the extent the applicant does not so satisfy the Keeper, the Keeper must reject the application.
(4)Subsection (2) is subject to section 45(5).
[F1(5)For the purposes of this section, submission by electronic means of a copy of the deed is sufficient evidence of the original for the purposes of accepting an application for registration.
(6)But subsection (5) applies only where submission of the copy is by a means (and in a form) which is specified on the Keeper's website as being acceptable.
(7)In subsection (5), references to submission by electronic means are to submission—
(a)by means of an electronic communications network (for example as an attachment to an email), or
(b)by other means but in a form which requires the use of electronic apparatus by the recipient to render the thing delivered intelligible.
(8)In subsection (7)(a), “electronic communications network” has the meaning given by section 32 of the Communications Act 2003.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 21(5)-(8) inserted (temp.) (7.4.2020) by virtue of Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 7), s. 17(1), sch. 7 para. 12 (with ss. 11-13)
Commencement Information
I1S. 21 in force at 8.12.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
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