{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002/section-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002/section-99.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/9",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002",
  "path": "section/99",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "The land registry",
  "text": "(1) There is to continue to be an office called Her Majesty’s Land Registry which is to deal with the business of registration under this Act.\n(2) The land registry is to consist of—\n(a) the Chief Land Registrar, who is its head, and\n(b) the staff appointed by him;\nand references in this Act to a member of the land registry are to be read accordingly.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall appoint a person to be the Chief Land Registrar.\n(4) Schedule 7 (which makes further provision about the land registry) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 99(3) substituted (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(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/9/section/99",
    "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."
}