Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These rules:

(A)

amend the Land Registration Rules 1925 so as to–

(a)

remove the requirement for the Registrar to keep a General Map;

(b)

remove from the rules all references to the General Map;

(c)

amend Forms 9 and 78 to delete reference to the General Map;

(d)

amend the provision requiring an Index Map to be kept;

(e)

prescribe the records that the Registrar will create on receipt of a caution against first registration; and

(f)

allow for the vertical lines to be omitted from any panel in a Schedule 1 form.

(B)

amend the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991 so as to–

(a)

remove references to the General Map which the Registrar is no longer obliged to keep;

(b)

include a new definition of title records which comprises the register, filed plan and documents referred to on the register; and

(c)

extend the provisions for inspection of the registers by remote terminal to include inspection of filed plans and documents referred to on the register which are in the custody of the registrar.