The Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1990

PART III OFFICIAL SEARCH WITHOUT PRIORITY

Application for official search without priority

9.—(1) A person (not being a purchaser requiring an official search with priority under Part II of these rules) may apply for an official search of a register without priority.

(2) An application for an official search without priority may be made:

(a) by delivering in documentary form at the proper office an application on Form 94C; or

(b) by delivering the application to the proper office, during the currency of any relevant notice given pursuant to rule 14, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice by any means of communication, other than that referred to in sub-paragraph (a) and:

(i) where the application is made by facsimile transmission in Form 94C, by delivering also any necessary plan; and

(ii) in any other case by providing such of the information specified in Schedule 2 and in such sequence as shall be required by that notice.

(3) Where the application is made under paragraph (2)(a), Form 94C and any plan accompanying the application shall, unless the registrar otherwise allows, be delivered in duplicate.

Issue of official certificate of search without priority

10.—(1) On completion of the search without priority an official certificate of search without priority shall be issued and such certificate shall not confer on the applicant priority for the registration of any dealing and shall so state.

(2) An official certificate of search without priority may be issued:

(a) in the form set out under the heading “Official Certificate of Result” in Form 94C;

(b) during the currency of any relevant notice given pursuant to rule 14, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, by any means of communication, other than the means referred to in sub-paragraph (a).

(3) An official certificate of search without priority shall include the information specified in Part I or Part III of Schedule 3 as the case may require and may be issued by reference to an office copy of the register.