{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-charges-amendment-rules-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-charges-amendment-rules-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2884",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Charges (Amendment) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-charges-amendment-rules-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "New rule 20",
  "text": "For rule 20 substitute—\n“20. (1) Subject to paragraph (3), applications under the Act or these Rules shall be sent by prepaid post or document exchange, or be delivered by hand, to the principal office.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), every such application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee, unless that fee is debited by the registrar to a credit account, or there exists an agreement with the registrar allowing payment of the fee by direct debit or other means.\n(3) Any application or priority notice under the Act or these Rules may, during the currency of a relevant notice given under Schedule 3, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, be made or given by any means of communication other than post, document exchange or delivery by hand, and the applicant must provide such of the particulars required for an application of that type or for a priority notice as are appropriate in the circumstances and as are required by the notice.\n(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3), the registrar may, at the registrar’s discretion, refuse to accept an application made by means of communication other than post, document exchange or delivery by hand.\n(5) Paragraph (4) does not apply to applications to which section 10(1)(b) applies.\n(6) Any certificates or other results, or acknowledgements of applications under the Act or these rules may, during the currency of a relevant notice given under Schedule 3, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, be issued by any means of communication other than post or document exchange.\n(7) Where information is issued under paragraph (6) it must be to like effect to that which would have been provided had the information been issued in paper form.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2884/schedule/1/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:08.790110+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."
}