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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules, which replace the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1988, provide:

(a)

that the authority of a registered proprietor or applicant for first registration to make a search is no longer required but an official search with priority can still only be made by a purchaser (as defined in rule 2 of the Rules);

(b)

a framework whereby searches may, during the currency of any notice given by the registrar under rule 14(1) of the Rules, be delivered by a variety of means including by telephone or facscimile transmission;

(c)

for revised forms of application for search and result of search as set out in Schedule 1 to the Rules.