SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Land registry network

8Presumption of authority

Where—

a

a person who is authorised under a network access agreement to do so uses the network for the making of a disposition or contract, and

b

the document which purports to effect the disposition or to be the contract—

i

purports to be authenticated by him as agent, and

ii

contains a statement to the effect that he is acting under the authority of his principal,

he shall be deemed, in favour of any other party, to be so acting.