{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/629",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Official Search without priority",
  "text": "(1) A person (not being a purchaser requiring an official search under rule 3 of these rules) who has authority to inspect a register may apply for an official search of that register without priority.\n(2) The application may be made on form 94C or, in such cases as the registrar specifies, may be made otherwise than in documentary form by such means of communication as the registrar may from time to time authorise.\n(3) Where the application is made on form 94C it shall, unless the registrar otherwise directs, be delivered in duplicate.\n(4) Where the application is made otherwise than in documentary form it shall, unless the registrar otherwise directs, include the information specified in and in the sequence set out in Schedule 2 to these rules.\n(5) The application shall be delivered to the proper office and on completion of the search an official certificate of search shall be issued but such a certificate shall not confer upon the applicant priority for the registration of any dealing and shall so state.\n(6) Subject to paragraph (7) below the official certificate of search shall be in form 94D or may be issued otherwise than in documentary form and shall include the information specified in Part I or Part III of Schedule 3 to these rules as the case may require.\n(7) The result of search may in any case, in the discretion of the registrar, be issued by reference to an accompanying office copy of the register.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/629/article/10",
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  },
  "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."
}