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Article 3 Official search by a purchaser

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(1)

A purchaser who has authority to inspect a register may apply for an official search of that register.

(2)

Where land is subject to a pending first registration application a purchaser who has authority in that behalf given by a person who has applied to be registered as proprietor of, or of a legal charge affecting, such land may apply for an official search in relation to that pending first registration application.

(3)

An application for an official search shall be made, in the case of registered land, on Form 94A or 94B and, in the case of a pending first registration application, on Form 94A(FR) or 94B(FR) or, in such cases as the registrar specifies, may be made to the like effect otherwise than in documentary form by such means of communication as the registrar may from time to time authorise.

(4)

The application shall be delivered at the proper office and, if in order, shall be entered on the day list and an official certificate of search shall be issued giving the result of search as at the time and date it is deemed to have been delivered.

(5)

Where the application is made on Form 94A, 94A(FR), 94B or 94B(FR) it shall, unless the registrar otherwise directs, be delivered in duplicate.

(6)

Where the application is made otherwise than in documentary form it shall, unless the registrar otherwise directs, include the information specified and in the sequence set out in Schedule 2 to these rules.

(7)

An official certificate of search of a register shall be issued in Form 94D or may be issued otherwise than in documentary form.

(8)

An official certificate of search in relation to a pending first registration application shall be issued in Form 94E or may be issued otherwise than in documentary form.

(9)

An official certificate of search shall include the information specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 3 to these rules as the case may require and, where it is issued under paragraph (7) above may, in the discretion of the registrar, be issued by reference to an accompanying office copy of the register.