{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-amendment-no-2-rules-2005/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-amendment-no-2-rules-2005/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1982",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Amendment) (No 2) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-amendment-no-2-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "New rule 58A",
  "text": "After rule 58, the following rule shall be inserted—\n“Form and content of prescribed clauses leases\n58A. (1) Subject to paragraph (3), a prescribed clauses lease must begin with the required wording or that wording must appear immediately after any front sheet.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a person applies for completion of a lease by registration and claims that the lease is not a prescribed clauses lease because the lease falls within (c) or (d) of the definition of prescribed clauses lease in paragraph (4), he must lodge with his application a certificate by a conveyancer to that effect or other evidence to satisfy the registrar as to his claim.\n(3) If it appears to the registrar that a lease is not a prescribed clauses lease, then paragraph (1) and, so far as appropriate, paragraph (2) and rule 72A(3) shall not apply to that lease.\n(4) In this rule—\n“front sheet” means a front cover sheet, or a contents sheet if it is at the lease’s beginning, or a front cover sheet and contents sheet where the contents sheet is immediately after the front cover sheet, and a “contents sheet” means a contents sheet or index sheet (in each case, however described) or both,\n“prescribed clauses lease” means a lease which—\n(a) is within section 27(2)(b) of the Act,\n(b) is granted on or after 19 June 2006,\n(c) is not granted in a form expressly required—\n(i) by an agreement entered into before 19 June 2006,\n(ii) by an order of the court,\n(iii) by or under an enactment, or\n(iv) by a necessary consent or licence for the grant of the lease given before 19 June 2006, and\n(d) is not a lease by virtue of a variation of a lease which is a deemed surrender and re-grant, and\n“required wording” means the wording in clauses LR1 to LR14 of Schedule 1A completed in accordance with the instructions in that Schedule and as appropriate for the particular lease.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1982/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:55:51.346014+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."
}