The Academies (Land Transfer Schemes) Regulations 2012

Requisitions on title and registration of title

3.—(1) The transferor under a scheme must provide a complete and accurate written response to any enquiries or requisitions on title raised before or after the scheme is made, by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, the transferee or the Chief Land Registrar(1).

(2) The response must be provided within 21 days of the date on which the transferor under the scheme received the enquiry or requisition on title.

(3) The transferor under a scheme must execute such instruments, deliver such certificates and do any other such things as are required under the Land Registration Act 2002(2) in order to enable the land to be registered in the name of the transferee.

(4) Paragraphs (5) and (6) apply in relation to a scheme under which the transferor under the scheme is entitled to retain possession of any document relating to the title to any land being transferred.

(5) The transferor under the scheme is to be treated as having given to the transferee an acknowledgement in writing of the right of the transferee to—

(a) the production of that document by the transferor, and

(b) be given copies of that document by the transferor.

(6) Section 64 of the Law of Property Act 1925(3) is to have effect as if the transferor under the scheme had given an acknowledgement in writing of the type referred to in subsection (1) of that section and as if that acknowledgement contained no expression of contrary intention.

(1)

The Chief Land Registrar is the person appointed under section 99 of the Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9).

(2)

2002 c. 9.

(3)

1925 c. 20.