PART 3E+WAPPLICATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

ObjectionsE+W

19.—(1) Subject to paragraph (5), an objection under section 73 of the Act to an application must be made by delivering to the registrar at the appropriate office a written statement signed by the objector or his conveyancer.

(2) The statement must—

(a)state that the objector objects to the application,

(b)state the grounds for the objection, and

(c)give the full name of the objector and an address [F1for service in accordance with rule 198].

(3) Subject to paragraph (5), the written statement referred to in paragraph (1) must be delivered—

(a)in paper form, or

(b)to the electronic address [F2.]

F3(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) In paragraph (3) the reference to the electronic address F4... is to the electronic address F4... for the appropriate office specified in a direction by the registrar under section 100(4) of the Act as that to be used for delivery of objections.

(5) Where a person is objecting to an application in response to a notice given by the registrar, he may alternatively do so in the manner and to the address stated in the notice as provided by rule 197(1)(c).

(6) In this rule the appropriate office is the same office as the proper office, designated under an order under section 100(3) of the Act, for the receipt of an application relating to the land in respect of which the objection is made, but on the assumption that if the order contains exceptions none of the exceptions apply to that application [F5, or, if no such order subsists, the address stated in any relevant direction by the registrar under section 100(4) of the Act as to the address to be used for the delivery of objections.]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in rule 19(2)(c) substituted (10.11.2008) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1919), rule 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 7 (with rule 5)

F2Full stop in rule 19(3)(b) substituted for word (6.4.2018) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/70), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 7(1)