{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1988/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Priority of applications protected by official searches of registers",
  "text": "Where a purchaser has applied for an official search of a register, any entry which is made in the register during the priority period relating to that search shall be postponed to a subsequent application to register the instrument effecting the purchase and, if the purchase is dependent on a prior dealing, to a subsequent application to register the instrument effecting that dealing provided each such subsequent application—\n(a) is deemed to have been delivered at the proper office within the priority period;\n(b) affects the same land or charge as the postponed entry; and\n(c) is in due course completed by registration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/629/article/5",
    "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."
}