{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988/article-2.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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:\n“the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;\n“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925;\n“day list” means the record kept pursuant to rule 7A of the principal rules;\n“purchaser” means any person (including a lessee or chargee) who in good faith and for valuable consideration acquires or intends to acquire a legal estate in land and “purchase” has a corresponding meaning;\n“pending first registration application” means an application made under Section 4 or 8 of the Act and entered on the day list but where the registration has not yet been completed;\n“delivered”, except in relation to an application made on form 94A, 94A(FR), 94B, 94B(FR), 94C or 101 includes received otherwise than in documentary form by such means as the registrar may from time to time authorise;\n“issued”, except in relation to an official certificate of search in form 94D, 94E or 102, includes sent otherwise than in documentary form;\n“official search” means any search of the register or any search in relation to a pending first registration application made by or under the control of officers of the Land Registry pursuant to an application made in accordance with rule 3 of these rules;\n“official certificate of search” means a result of search issued in accordance with rule 3 of these rules;\n“priority period” means the period beginning at the time when an application for an official search is deemed by virtue of paragraph (3) below to have been delivered and ending immediately after 9.30 hours on the thirtieth day thereafter;\n“proper office” means the district land registry designated as the proper office by Article 2(2) of the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1987;\n“day” means a day when the Land Registry is open to the public;\n“licensed conveyancer” has the same meaning as in section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 and includes a recognised body within the meaning of section 32(2) of that Act.\n(2) A form referred to by number means the form so numbered in Schedule 1 to these rules.\n(3) An application for an official search made by a purchaser in accordance with rule 3 of these rules which is delivered after 9.30 hours on one day and before or at 9.30 hours on the next day shall be deemed to have been delivered immediately before 9.30 hours on the second day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. 1925/1093; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/1601, 1986/1534."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2213."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/629/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:36.158251+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."
}