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Article 12 Search without priority by telephone or telex

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(1)

During the currency of any relevant notice given pursuant to rule 14, and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, a person may apply to the proper office by telephone or telex for a search without priority 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 1988 or rule 4 of these rules.

(2)

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

(3)

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