{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registers-of-scotland-digital-registration-etc-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2017/9780111037065",
  "legislation_title": "The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registers-of-scotland-digital-registration-etc-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Procedure for application for an advance notice or discharge of advance notice in Land Register",
  "text": "(1) The Land Register Rules are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3(1) (procedure for application for an advance notice relating to the whole of a registered plot)—\n(a) for “An application” substitute “Subject to paragraph (3), an application”;\n(b) omit “the whole of”;\n(c) omit “or” after sub-paragraph (a);\n(d) omit sub-paragraph (b)(ii) and the “or” which precedes it;\n(e) at the end, insert—\n“; or\n(c) the Keeper is otherwise satisfied that exceptional circumstances make it impractical to do so;”; and\n(f) after paragraph (1), insert-\n“(1A) In particular, paragraph (1)(c) is met—\n(a) if the applicant is a natural person who granted the deed to which the advance notice relates; and\n(b) the application is not made by a person who, in connection with the grant, acts as a solicitor or other legal adviser to the granter.”.\n(3) For regulation 3(3) (procedure for application for an advance notice relating to part of a registered plot) substitute—\n“(3) Except in respect of advance notices relating to the whole of a registered plot, paragraph (1) does not apply unless the Keeper has notified a date in accordance with paragraph (4).\n(4) Such a notification by the Keeper must state the date on which it comes into effect, which date may not be earlier than 6 months after the date of its publication on the Keeper’s website.\n(5) Before making such a notification, the Keeper must consult the Scottish Ministers.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "https://www.ros.gov.uk/"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2017/9780111037065/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}