The Land Registration (Network Access) Rules 2008

PART 1 GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1.  These rules may be cited as the Land Registration (Network Access) Rules 2008 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these rules unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Land Registration Act 2002,

“address for service” means an address for service for the purposes of a network access agreement, pursuant to paragraph 1 of Schedule 2,

“business day” is a day when the land registry is open to the public under rule 216 of the principal rules,

“full network access agreement” has the meaning given in rule 3(1),

“intervention” means an intervention—

(a)

by the Law Society under section 35 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Solicitors Act 1974(1), section 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1985(2), or section 89 of, and Schedule 14 to, the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(3), or

(b)

by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers under section 31 of, and Schedule 5 to, or section 32 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1985,

“notice of termination” means a notice of the kind described in rule 8(2),

“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 2003(4),

“read-only network access agreement” has the meaning given in rule 3(2),

“signature network access agreement” has the meaning given in rule 3(3),

“Subscriber” means the person who is a party to a network access agreement with the registrar, and

“subsequent appeal” does not include an appeal out of time with permission.

(2) References to an electronic signature are to be read in accordance with section 7(2) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(5).

(3) In rules 7, 8, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 and 3, a reference to an agreement is to a full network access agreement.

(1)

1974 c.47.

(2)

1985 c.61.

(3)

1990 c.41.

(4)

S.I. 2003/1417; no relevant amending instruments.

(5)

2000 c.7.