{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-matrimonial-home-rights-rules-1997/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-matrimonial-home-rights-rules-1997/article-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Application for official search by a mortgagee",
  "text": "(1) A mortgagee of registered land which consists of or includes all or part of a dwelling-house may apply for an official certificate of the result of a search of the relevant register for the purpose of section 56(3) of the 1996 Act.\n(2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be made:\n(a) by delivering in documentary form at the proper office an application on Form MH3; or\n(b) during the currency of any relevant notice given pursuant to rule 9, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, by delivering the application to the registrar, by any means of communication other than that referred to in sub-paragraph (a) and;\n(i) where the application is made by facsimile transmission the applicant shall provide Form MH3;\n(ii) in any other case the applicant shall provide, in such order as may be required by the registrar, such of the particulars as are appropriate and are required for an application in Form MH3.\n(3) Where the application is made under paragraph (2)(a), Form MH3, unless the registrar otherwise allows, shall be delivered in duplicate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1964/article/6",
    "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."
}