The Land Registration Rules 2003

Outline applications E+W

54.—(1) An outline application is an application made in accordance with this rule.

(2) Subject to Schedule 2, any application may be made by outline application if it satisfies the following conditions—

(a) the application must not be—

(i) an application which can be protected by an official search with priority within the meaning of rule 147,

(ii) an application for first registration,

(iii) an application for a caution against first registration or in respect of the cautions register,

(iv) an application dealing with part only of the land in a registered title, whether or not also involving any other registered title,

(v) an application under Part 13, and

(b) the right, interest or matter the subject of the application must exist at the time the application is made.

(3) During the currency of any notice given under Schedule 2, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, an outline application may be made by—

(a) an oral application,

(b) telephone, or

(c) electronic means.

(4) An outline application must contain the following particulars when made—

(a) the title number(s) affected,

(b) if there is only one proprietor or applicant for first registration and that person is an individual, his surname, otherwise the proprietor's or such applicant's full name or the full name of one of the proprietors or such applicants, as appropriate,

(c) the nature of the application,

(d) the name of the applicant,

(e) the name and address of the person or firm lodging the application,

(f) any other particulars specified in any notice made under Schedule 2.

(5) Every outline application must be allocated an official reference number and must be identified on the day list as such and must be marked with the date and time at which the application is taken as made and the registrar must acknowledge receipt of any outline application by notifying the applicant, as soon as practicable, of the official reference number allocated to it.

[F1 (6) Without prejudice to the power of the registrar to cancel an application under rule 16, the outline application must be cancelled by the registrar unless there are delivered together at the appropriate office before the expiry of the reserved period—

(a) the application form prescribed by these rules for the application, the particulars of which have been given in the outline application, duly completed, and

(b) the appropriate documents.]

(7) If the outline application has been cancelled before the [F2 application] form required by paragraph (6)[F2 (a)] is delivered at the appropriate office, the registrar shall accept the form as an application in its own right.

[F3 (8) In this rule the “appropriate office” is—

(a) the proper office, designated under an order under section 100(3) of the Act, for the receipt of an application relating to the land in respect of which the outline application is made, but on the assumption that if the order contains exceptions none of the exceptions apply to the application, or

(b) the office specified in a written arrangement made between the registrar and the applicant or between the registrar and the applicant’s conveyancer for the delivery of applications of the nature particularised in the outline application.]

(9) In this rule “reserved period” means the period expiring at 12 noon on the fourth business day following the day that the outline application was taken as made.

Textual Amendments

F1 Rule 54(6) substituted (10.11.2008) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1919), rule 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 14(a) (with rule 5)

F2 Words in rule 54(7) inserted (10.11.2008) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1919), rule 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 14(b) (with rule 5)

F3 Rule 54(8) substituted (10.11.2008) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1919), rule 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 14(c) (with rule 5)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Rule 54 applied (with modifications) (27.9.2004) by The Commonhold (Land Registration) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/1830), rules 1, 3(3)(b)