The Land Registration Rules 2003

PART 2 E+W INDICES

Index to be kept under section 68 of the Act E+W

10.—(1) The index to be kept under section 68 of the Act must comprise—

(a) an index map from which it is possible to ascertain, in relation to a parcel of land, whether there is—

(i) a pending application for first registration (other than of title to a relating franchise),

(ii) a pending application for a caution against first registration (other than where the subject of the caution is a relating franchise),

(iii) a registered estate in land,

(iv) a registered rentcharge,

(v) a registered profit a prendre in gross,

(vi) a registered affecting franchise, or

(vii) a caution against first registration (other than where the subject of the caution is a relating franchise),

and, if there is such a registered estate or caution, the title number, and

(b) an index of verbal descriptions of—

(i) pending applications for first registration of title to relating franchises,

(ii) pending applications for cautions against first registration where the subject of the caution is a relating franchise,

(iii) registered franchises which are relating franchises,

(iv) registered manors, and

(v) cautions against first registration where the subject of the caution is a relating franchise,

and the title numbers of any such registered estates and cautions, arranged by administrative area.

(2) The information required to be shown in the index to be kept under section 68 is to be entered by the registrar in the index as soon as practicable.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Rule 10(1)(b) restricted (13.10.2003) by The Land Registration Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1953), arts. 1(1), 21(2)

Index of proprietors' names E+W

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the registrar must keep an index of proprietors' names, showing for each individual register the name of the proprietor of the registered estate and the proprietor of any registered charge together with the title number.

(2) Until every individual register is held in electronic form, the index need not contain the name of any corporate or joint proprietor of an estate or of a charge registered as proprietor prior to 1st May 1972.

[F1 (3) A person may apply in Form PN1 for a search to be made in the index in respect of—

(a) his own name,

(b) the name of a corporation aggregate, or

(c) the name of some other person in whose property he can satisfy the registrar that he is interested generally (for instance as trustee in bankruptcy or personal representative).]

(4) On receipt of such an application the registrar must make the search and supply the applicant with details of every entry in the index relating to the particulars given in the application.

Textual Amendments

F1 Rule 11(3) substituted (10.11.2008) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1919), rule 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 6 (with rule 5)

The day list E+W

12.—(1) The registrar must keep a record (known as the day list) showing the date and time at which every pending application under the Act or these rules was made and of every application for an official search with priority under rule 147.

(2) The entry of notice of an application for an official search with priority must remain on the day list until the priority period conferred by the entry has ceased to have effect.

(3) Where the registrar proposes to alter the register without having received an application he must enter his proposal on the day list and, when so entered, the proposal will have the same effect for the purposes of rules 15 and 20 as if it were an application to the registrar made at the date and time of its entry.

(4) In this rule the term “pending application” does not include [F2 an application made under rule 11(3),] [F3 an application for a network access agreement under paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 5 to the Act, or] an application within Part 13, other than an application that the registrar designate a document an exempt information document under rule 136.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in rule 12(4) added (6.4.2018) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/70), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 1

F3 Words in rule 12(4) inserted (4.8.2008) by The Land Registration (Electronic Conveyancing) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1750), rule 1, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1