The Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991

Inspection in connection with criminal proceedings, receivership under certain Acts and insolvency

6.—(1) If a person referred to in column 1 of Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2:

(a) applies in Form 112A or 112B whichever is appropriate to make an inspection under this rule in relation to a person specified in the application or to a property so specified; and

(b) gives the registrar the apropriate certificate (completed to contain all particulars required) referred to in column 2 of the said Schedule;

the registrar shall permit him to inspect and to obtain copies of and extracts from any document falling within section 112(2) of the Act and shall, if so requested (and not withstanding rule 9 of the principal rules), provide him with the result of a search of the index of proprietors' names pursuant to the application.

(2) Where a person applies under paragraph (1) he may apply in Form 112A or 112B whichever is appropriate for inspection of or office copies of: the entries on the register of a registered title, the title plan of a registered title, a document referred to in the register of a registered title which is in the custody of the registrar or a caution title.

(3) An application under this rule shall be delivered to such office of the Registry as the registrar may direct.

(4) During the currency of any relevant notice given pursuant to rule 13, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, any application under this rule may be made by facsimile transmission.

(5) In Schedle 2:

(a) reference to senior executive officers include references to equivalent departmental grades;

(b) references to an official receiver are references to an official receiver for the purpse of the Insolvency Act 1986(1) or the Companies Act 1985(2) or a person acting as a deputy to such an official receiver;

(c) references to a trustee in bankruptcy are references to a trustee in bankruptcy of a person adjudged bankrupt in England and Wales or Northern ireland or to a permanent or interim trustee in the sequestration of a debtor’s estate in Scotland;

(d) references to the official assignee are references to the Official Assignee for bankruptcy for Northern Ireland or the Official Assignee for company liquidations for Northern Ireland; and

(e) references to a liquidator or administrator are respectively references to a liquidator or administrator appointed for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986.

(1)

1986 c. 45.

(2)

1985 c. 6.