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Article 8 Search by telephone or telex

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(1)

A person having authority to apply for an official search may apply by his solicitor or licensed conveyancer to the proper office by telephone or telex for a search to ascertain whether—

(a)

in the case of a search of the register, any adverse entry has been made in the register since a given date being either the date of the issue of an office copy of the subsisting entries thereon or the date on which the land or charge certificate was officially examined with the register; and

(b)

in any case, there is any entry subsisting on the day list made pursuant to rule 7A of the principal rules, rule 3 of the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1986f1 or rule 3 of these rules.

(2)

Where an application is made by telephone the particulars set out in Part I of Schedule 4 to these rules shall be supplied.

(3)

An application by telex shall be made in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 5 to these rules.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1986/1536.