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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-matrimonial-home-rights-rules-1997/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1964",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Matrimonial Home Rights) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-matrimonial-home-rights-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Warning off of matrimonial home rights cautions",
  "text": "The registrar shall not be required, on the application of the proprietor of the land to which a matrimonial home rights caution relates, to serve the notice referred to in rule 218 of the Land Registration Rules 1925 except upon production of:\n(a) a release in writing of the matrimonial home rights protected by the caution; or\n(b) a statutory declaration that, as to the whole or any part of the land to which the caution relates, no charge under section 31 of the 1996 Act, section 2 of the 1983 Act or section 2 of the 1967 Act has ever arisen or, if such a charge has arisen, it is no longer subsisting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1964/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:33.559579+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."
}