http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2213/article/18/madeThe Land Registration (Hearings Procedure) Rules 2000Land registrationHearingsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2017-01-10LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES These Rules prescribe the procedure to be followed in proceedings before the Registrar:Part I imports the Overriding Objective contained in Rule 1.1 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and requires the Registrar, with the assistance of the parties, to seek to give effect to that objective throughout the proceedings.Part II deals with all cases where the Registrar has decided to conduct a hearing. Rule 3 requires him to notify the parties of his intention and to provide guidance relating to evidence and procedure. The Rule also permits the parties to attend, call witnesses and be represented. Rule 4 deals with the right of audience before the Registrar.Part III deals generally with the procedure leading to the hearing. The Rules provide the Registrar with the appropriate powers, both to give directions and to impose sanctions, to facilitate the pre-hearing process. Rule 9 deals with the disclosure and inspection of evidence, while Rule 10 enables the Registrar to issue witness summonses and prescribes the form. Under Rule 11, a party may only use expert evidence with the Registrar’s permission.Part IV deals generally with all hearings. Rule 15 provides for hearings to be in public. Rule 16 enables the Registrar, in the absence of a party, either to hear and determine the matter or to adjourn the hearing. Rule 17 provides the methods by which the Registrar may give his decision and requires it to be recorded in an order. It also requires the Registrar to give written reasons for his decision if a reasoned judgement was not delivered at the hearing. PART VMISCELLANEOUS AND INTERPRETATIONService of documents 18 1 For the purposes of these rules, a party may give an address for service of any order, direction, notice or other document, but in the case of a registered proprietor or cautioner unless otherwise specified his address for service shall be the address given on the register. 2 Where these rules require or authorise any order, direction, notice or other document to be served on or delivered to any person, they may be sent by post to his address for service or, where no address for service has been given, his registered office, principal place of business, head or main office or last known address, as appropriate. Any notice, application or other document addressed to the Registrar must be sent to 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH, or as he otherwise directs. 3 Any order, direction, notice or other document required or authorised under these rules to be served on, or delivered to, an unincorporated body may be sent to its secretary, manager or similar officer. 4 Every order, direction, notice or other document served under these rules by post will be assumed, in the absence of contrary evidence, to have been delivered in the normal course of post. 5 The Registrar may direct that service under these rules of any order, direction, notice or other document be dispensed with or permit service by an alternative method. 6 Rule 311(1) of the principal rules does not apply to any notice required or authorised to be served on or delivered to any person under these rules. 7 The following provisions of the principal rules do not apply to any notice or other document required or authorised to be served on or delivered to any person under these rules: a rule 311(3); b rule 313; c rule 315.
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