The Land Registration Rules 2003

Official Copies

Application for official copies of a registered title, the cautions register or for a certificate of inspection of the title plan

134.—(1) A person may apply for—

(a) an official copy of an individual register,

(b) an official copy of any title plan referred to in an individual register,

(c) an official copy of an individual caution register and any caution plan referred to in it, and

(d) a certificate of inspection of any title plan.

(2) Subject to rule 132(1), an application under paragraph (1) must be in Form OC1.

(3) A separate application must be made in respect of each registered title or individual caution register.

(4) Where, notwithstanding paragraph (3), an application is in respect of more than one registered title or individual caution register, but the applicant fails to provide a title number, or the title number provided does not relate to any part of the property in respect of which the application is made, the registrar may—

(a) deal with the application as if it referred only to one of the title numbers relating to the property,

(b) deal with the application as if it referred to all of the title numbers relating to the property, or

(c) cancel the application.

(5) In paragraph (4) the reference to title number includes in the case of an individual caution register a caution title number.

(6) Where the registrar deals with the application under paragraph (4)(b), the applicant is to be treated as having made a separate application in respect of each of the registered titles or each of the individual caution registers.

(7) An official copy of an individual caution register and any caution plan referred to in it must be issued disregarding any application or matter that may affect the subsistence of the caution.

Application for official copies of documents referred to in the register of title and other documents kept by the registrar

135.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person may apply for an official copy of—

(a) any document referred to in the register of title and kept by the registrar,

(b) any other document kept by the registrar that relates to an application to him.

(2) There is excepted from paragraph (1)—

(a) any exempt information document,

(b) any edited information document which has been replaced by another edited information document under rule 136(6),

(c) any Form EX1A,

(d) any Form CIT,

(e) any Form to which Form CIT has been attached under rule 140(3) or (4), and

(f) any document or copy of any document prepared by the registrar in connection with an application in a Form to which Form CIT has been attached under rule 140(3) or (4).

(3) During the transitional period, paragraph (1) is also subject to rule 139.

(4) Subject to rule 132(1), an application under paragraph (1) must be made in Form OC2.

(5) In paragraph (2) the references to Form EX1A and Form CIT and Forms to which Form CIT has been attached include any equivalent information provided under rule 132 and the reference to an application in a Form to which Form CIT has been attached includes an equivalent application made by virtue of rule 132.