{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002/section-128",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002/section-128.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/9",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002",
  "path": "section/128",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "128",
  "heading": "Rules, regulations and orders",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State to make rules, regulations or orders under this Act includes power to make different provision for different cases.\n(2) Any power of the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State to make rules, regulations or orders under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(3) A statutory instrument containing—\n(a) regulations under section 100(2), or\n(b) an order under section 100(3), 102 or 113,\nis to be laid before Parliament after being made.\n(4) A statutory instrument containing—\n(a) land registration rules,\n(b) rules under section 121, ...,\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) an order under section 5(1), 62(9), 80(4), 118(1) or 130, , or\n(e) regulations under paragraph 3(3) or 5(2) of Schedule 4A.\nis subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(5) Rules under section 93 or paragraph 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 5 shall not be made unless a draft of the rules has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 128(1) inserted (9.11.2011) by The Transfer of Functions (Her Majesty's Land Registry, the Meteorological Office and Ordnance Survey) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2436), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 128(2) inserted (9.11.2011) by The Transfer of Functions (Her Majesty's Land Registry, the Meteorological Office and Ordnance Survey) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2436), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 128(4)(b) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 235(a) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 128(4)(b) omitted (5.9.2022) by virtue of Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10), s. 69(1), Sch. 3 para. 4(a); S.I. 2022/876, reg. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 128(4)(c) omitted (1.7.2013) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 235(b) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 128(4)(e) and word inserted (5.9.2022) by Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10), s. 69(1), Sch. 3 para. 4(b); S.I. 2022/876, reg. 4(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/9/section/128",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:41.419234+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."
}