The Land Registration Rules 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 2214

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration Rules 1987

Made

15th December 1987

Laid before Parliament

11th January 1988

Coming into force

1st February 1988

The Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Rule Committee appointed in pursuance of section 144 of the Land Registration Act 1925(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Land Registration Rules 1987 and shall come into force on 1st February 1988.

New Rule 288

2.—(1) The following rule shall be substituted for rule 288 of the Land Registration Rules 1925(2):

“Inspection otherwise than under authority of proprietor

288.— (1) In this rule “a person interested” in relation to any land includes a tenant or a person interested in a charge or incumbrance to which the land is subject or a person interested as hereby defined in any adjoining land.

(2) A person interested in any registered land may inspect and obtain office copies of the Property Register and the filed plan of the title to that land.

(3) A tenant entitled to inspect the Proprietorship Register of a title under section 112C of the Act (right of residential tenant to search for landlord’s name and address) may apply on Form 108 for the name and address of the proprietor of the land registered under that title to be disclosed to him.

(4) A person interested in any registered land may upon written application inspect and obtain office copies of the Proprietorship Register, the Charges Register and any document referred to in any entry in the register of the title to that land, and the statutory declaration in support of a caution affecting that land, provided the person interested is a tenant entitled to inspect the same under section 112C of the Act or the Registrar is satisfied that such inspection is reasonable and proper and that either:

(a) the person interested, by reason of the death of a sole proprietor, or for any other sufficient reason, cannot obtain the requisite authority for or consent to such inspection; or

(b) no objection by the proprietor to such inspection has been received following notice given to the proprietor by the Registrar in such form and of such period (being not less than 3 days) as the Registrar may direct.”

(2) Form 108 in the Schedule hereto shall be added at the end of the Schedule to the Land Registration Rules 1925.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 15th December 1987

RULE 2(2)

SCHEDULE

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Rules substitute a revised rule for rule 288 of the Land Registration Rules 1925 incorporating new provisions under which a tenant of residential property entitled to inspect the proprietorship register of a registered title pursuant to section 112C of the Land Registration Act 1925 (right of residential tenant to search for landlord’s name and address) may apply on new form 108 for disclosure of the name and address of the proprietor of the land registered under that title and may otherwise inspect and obtain office copies of the parts of the register of a title which such tenant is entitled to inspect pursuant to that section.

(1)

1925 c. 21

(2)

S.R. & O. 1925/1093.