Explanatory note

These Regulations make rules for making up and keeping the Land Register of Scotland (“the register”), the procedure for applications for registration, forms to be used, requiring the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland (“the Keeper”) to enter in the title sheet record certain information, and other matters which may or must be provided for under the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (“the Act”) or to give it full effect.

Regulation 2 provides for application forms to be used in respect of advance notices.

Regulation 3 provides for the procedure to be followed in respect of advance notices.

Regulation 4 provides for the description to be contained in an advance notice where the intended deed relates to an unregistered lease or unregistered plot of land.

Regulation 5 provides for notifications of acceptance of advance notices.

Regulation 6 provides for the removal of a delineation made on the cadastral map in respect of an advance notice where the intended deed is not registered within the protected period.

Regulation 7 prescribes the application form to be used for registration of a deed or plot of land.

Regulation 8 provides for the requirements for applications for registration of a plot of land comprising seabed.

Regulation 9 provides the requirements for affidavits.

Regulation 10 provides for the allocation of application numbers and provisional title numbers.

Regulation 11 provides for acknowledgment of applications for registration.

Regulation 12 provides for information to be entered in title sheets.

Regulation 13 provides for amendments and substitutions to applications.

Regulation 14 sets out the date of registration applied when two or more cadastral units are combined to make one plot of land.

Regulation 15 prescribes the application form to be used to have a caveat placed on a title sheet.

Regulation 16 prescribes the application form to vary warranty.

Regulation 17 provides that the Keeper may correct typographical errors in title sheets where the error is not an inaccuracy as defined in section 65 of the Act.

Regulation 18 provides the method of notification by a prescriptive claimant, the form of which is set out in Schedule 2.

A business regulatory impact assessment has not been provided for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.