Explanatory note

These Regulations, which replace the Land Registration (Solicitor to H M Land Registry) Regulations 1990, make amendments to the acts of the registrar which may be done by a legally qualified registrar, called the Solicitor to H M Land Registry or, during a vacancy in the office of, or in the absence of, the Solicitor to H M Land Registry, by another legally qualified registrar (styled the Acting Solicitor to H M Land Registry). They further provide for those acts to be done by any other legally qualified registrar, for the purpose of hearing matters under rule 220 (hearing of cautioner by registrar) and rule 298 (hearings by the registrar) of the Land Registration Rules 1925, and making orders consequent upon such hearings, where such registrar is directed by the Chief Land Registrar to conduct the hearing.