# The Land Registration (Amendment) (No 2) Rules 2005, Article 5: New rule 58A


After rule 58, the following rule shall be inserted—
“Form and content of prescribed clauses leases
58A. (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.
(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.
(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.
(4) In this rule—
“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,
“prescribed clauses lease” means a lease which—
(a) is within section 27(2)(b) of the Act,
(b) is granted on or after 19 June 2006,
(c) is not granted in a form expressly required—
(i) by an agreement entered into before 19 June 2006,
(ii) by an order of the court,
(iii) by or under an enactment, or
(iv) by a necessary consent or licence for the grant of the lease given before 19 June 2006, and
(d) is not a lease by virtue of a variation of a lease which is a deemed surrender and re-grant, and
“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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1982/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-amendment-no-2-rules-2005/article-5
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