1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991 and shall come into force on 30th March 1992.
(2) In these Rules, unless the context requires:
“The Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;
“caution title” means:
the document prepared by the registrar which records, under a distinguishing number, details of any caution against first registration lodged under section 53 of the Act and of the statutory declaration in support of that caution; and
the plan, referred to in that document, prepared by the registrar, showing the extent of the land effected by the caution;
“credit account” means an account authorised by the registrar under article 15(1) of the Land Registration Fees Order 1991(1);
“designated plan” means a plan which is a copy or extract from the Ordnance Map at the largest scale published for the area in which the land to which it relates is situated, such plan to have a length no greater than 297 mm and a width no greater than 210 mm (A4 paper size);
“Index Map section” means the document or documents comprising a single section of the index Maps maintained by the registrar under rule 8 of the principal rules, and the associated Parcels Index (if any) maintained by the registrar under rule 274 of the principal rules;
“the 1990 Rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1990(2);
“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925(3);
“proper office” means the district land registry designated as the proper office by article 2(2) of the Land Registgration (District Registries) Order 1991(4);
“title plan” means the filed plan or portion of the General Map referred to in the register of a registered title.
(3) Except in rule 15, a form referred to by a number means the form so numbered in Schedule 1.
(4) Expressions used in these rules have, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the principal rules.