The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008
The Commonhold (Land Registration) (Amendment) Rules 2008
The Land Registration (Proper Office) (Amendment) Order 2008 These statutory instruments all came into force on 10 November 2008, with the exception of a provision in the Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 referred to below. The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (“the amendment rules”) further amend the Land Registration Rules 2003 (“the principal rules”), which make detailed provision for land registration in England and Wales. The amendments are miscellaneous and follow a general review of the principal rules carried out by Land Registry. The Commonhold (Land Registration) (Amendment) Rules 2008 (“the commonhold amendment rules”) amend the Commonhold (Land Registration) Rules 2004 to take account of the change to a particular form prescribed by the principal rules and altered by the amendment rules, and to provide for the use of “statements of truth” in place of statutory declarations (there being similar provisions in the amendment rules). The Land Registration (Proper Office) (Amendment) Order 2008 (“the proper office amendment order”) amends the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2007 so that the definition of “conveyancer” in the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2007 is the same as that in the principal rules as amended by the amendment rules. Timetable for implementation - July 2008 – The rules and order were made and laid before Parliament
- By 18 August 2008 – A consolidated version of the principal rules showing the changes made by the amendment rules (including those to the prescribed forms) was available on our website, together with a customer Take action booklet giving details of the most important changes.
- Late September 2008 – Take action booklets were issued to all Land Registry account holders and Land Registry began publishing amended practice guides and public guides.
- 10 November 2008 – The rules and order came into force, except for a provision in the amendment rules, dealing with certificates of registration of company charges, which comes into force when a particular section of the Companies Act 2006 comes into force.
Please note that for applications requiring the use of forms AP1, DS2 and FR1 received on or after 10 November it is mandatory to use the form as amended by the amendment rules. With all other forms the unamended version may be used (a) during a three-month transitional period lasting until 9 February 2009 or (b) if its use is expressly required by an agreement entered into at least three months before 10 November, by a court order or by or under an enactment. A consultation document Review of the Land Registration Rules 2003 was issued in October 2007. For a report on the responses to the consultation document, please consult the Report on Consultation. For details of the Impact Assessment, please consult the Impact Assessment. Please visit the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website for the following: For a consolidated version of the revised principal rules, please visit Land Registration Rules 2003 (consolidated). For details of the most important changes to the principal rules, please consult our Take action booklet. This is available for download as a print quality pdf file (12 Mb) or a web quality pdf file (4 Mb). Further information can be found on our Frequently Asked Questions web page. |
