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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110490940",
  "legislation_title": "The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Delivery of deed by agent",
  "text": "(1) Any rule of law which requires authority by one person to another to deliver an instrument as a deed on his behalf to be given by deed is abolished.\n(2) Where a solicitor, or an agent or employee of a solicitor, in the course of, or in connection with, a transaction involving the sale or other disposition of—\n(a) an estate in land; or\n(b) an interest in the proceeds of sale of land,\npurports to deliver an instrument as a deed on behalf of a party to the instrument, it is to be conclusively presumed in favour of a purchaser that he is authorised so to deliver the instrument.\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\n“disposition” includes a conveyance and also a devise, bequest or appointment of property by will;\n“purchaser” means a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and includes a lessee, mortgagee or other person who, for valuable consideration, acquires an estate in land or an interest in the proceeds of sale of land; and, in relation to a legal estate, includes a chargee by way of legal mortgage.\n(4) Nothing in this Article applies in relation to instruments delivered as deeds before the coming into operation of this Article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110490940/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:15.935404+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}