The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2011

New rule 217A

4.  After rule 217 of the principal rules insert—

“Definition of “conveyancer”

217A.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), in these rules “conveyancer” means—

(a) an authorised person entitled to carry on the relevant reserved instrument activities in accordance with the regulatory arrangements of the relevant approved regulator or licensing authority, as the case may be,

(b) an individual or body who employs, or being a body has among its managers, at least one authorised person entitled to carry on the relevant reserved instrument activities and who will carry on or direct and supervise the carrying on of the relevant reserved instrument activities as such employee or manager, in accordance with the regulatory arrangements of the relevant approved regulator or licensing authority, as the case may be, or

(c) a person who carries on the relevant reserved instrument activities in the course of that person’s duty as a public officer.

(2) For the purposes of a certificate given by a conveyancer under rule 62(2), 63(2), 183(2)(a), or Form LL in Schedule 4, “conveyancer” means—

(a) an authorised person who is an individual and who is entitled to carry on the relevant reserved instrument activities in accordance with the regulatory arrangements of the relevant approved regulator or licensing authority, as the case may be, or

(b) an individual who carries on the relevant reserved instrument activities in the course of that person’s duty as a public officer,

and in either case, the conveyancer must sign in their own name and not that of their firm or employer.

(3) For the purposes of this rule—

(a) “authorised person” has the same meaning as in section 18 of the Legal Services Act 2007,

(b) “licensing authority” has the same meaning as in section 73 of the Legal Services Act 2007,

(c) “manager” has the same meaning as in section 207 of the Legal Services Act 2007,

(d) “regulatory arrangements” has the same meaning as in section 21 of the Legal Services Act 2007,

(e) “relevant approved regulator” has the same meaning as in section 20 of the Legal Services Act 2007,

(f) “relevant reserved instrument activities” means the reserved instrument activities set out in paragraph 5(1)(a) and (b) of Schedule 2 to the Legal Services Act  2007.”.