The Land Registration Rules 2003

Address for service of notice E+W

198.—(1) A person who is (or will as a result of an application be) a person within paragraph (2) must give the registrar an address for service to which all notices and other communications to him by the registrar may be sent, as provided by paragraph (3).

(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) the registered proprietor of a registered estate or registered charge,

(b) the registered beneficiary of a unilateral notice,

(c) a cautioner named in an individual caution register,

[F1 (d) a person named in—

(i) a standard form of restriction set out in Schedule 4, whose address is required by that restriction, or

(ii) any other restriction, whose consent or certificate is required, or to whom notice is required to be given by the registrar or another person,

except where the registrar is required to enter the restriction without application,]

(e) a person entitled to be notified of an application for adverse possession under rule 194,

(f) a person who objects to an application under section 73 of the Act,

(g) a person who gives notice to the registrar under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6 to the Act, and

(h) any person who while dealing with the registrar in connection with registered land or a caution against first registration is requested by the registrar to give an address for service.

(3) A person within paragraph (1) must give the registrar an address for service which is a postal address, whether or not in the United Kingdom.

(4) A person within paragraph (1) may give the registrar one or two additional addresses for service, provided that he may not have more than three addresses for service, and the address or addresses must be—

(a) a postal address, whether or not in the United Kingdom, or

(b) subject to paragraph (7), a box number at a United Kingdom document exchange, or

(c) an electronic address.

(5) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) a person within paragraph (1) may give the registrar a replacement address for service.

(6) A cautioner who is entered in the register of title in respect of a caution against dealings under section 54 of the Land Registration Act 1925 may give the registrar a replacement or additional address for service provided that—

(a) he may not have more than three addresses for service,

(b) one of his addresses for service must be a postal address, whether or not in the United Kingdom, and

(c) all of his addresses for service must be such addresses as are mentioned in paragraph (4).

[F2 (6A) Where a cautioner who is shown in the register of title as having been entered in that register in respect of a caution against dealings under section 54 of the Land Registration Act 1925 has died, his personal representative may apply to the registrar for the entry of a replacement or additional address for service provided that—

(a) there may not be more than three addresses for service,

(b) one of the addresses for service must be a postal address, whether or not in the United Kingdom,

(c) all of the addresses for service must be such addresses as are mentioned in paragraph (4), and

(d) the application must be accompanied by—

(i) the original grant of probate of the deceased proprietor and, where section 7 of the Administration of Justice Act 1925 applies, the original grant of probate showing the chain of representation, to prove that the transferor is his personal representative,

(ii) the original letters of administration of the deceased proprietor showing the transferor as his personal representative,

(iii) a court order appointing the applicant as the deceased’s personal representative, or

(iv) (where a conveyancer is acting for the applicant) a certificate given by a conveyancer that he holds the original or a certified office copy of such grant of probate, letters of administration or court order.]

(7) The box number referred to at paragraph (4)(b) must be at a United Kingdom document exchange to which delivery can be made on behalf of the land registry under arrangements already in existence between the land registry and a service provider at the time the box number details are provided to the registrar under this rule.

(8) In this rule an electronic address means—

(a) an e-mail address, or

(b) any other form of electronic address specified in a direction under paragraph (9).

(9) If the registrar is satisfied that a form of electronic address, other than an e-mail address, is a suitable form of address for service he may issue a direction to that effect.

(10) A direction under paragraph (9) may contain such conditions or limitations or both as the registrar considers appropriate.

(11) A person within paragraph (2)(d) shall be treated as having complied with any duty imposed on him under paragraph (1) where rule 92(2)(b) has been complied with.

Textual Amendments

F1 Rule 198(2)(d) substituted (24.10.2005) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/1766), rules 1, 8

F2 Rule 198(6A) inserted (10.11.2008) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1919), rule 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 64 (with rule 5)