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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1361",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules, which replace the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1988, provide:\n(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);\n(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;\n(c) for revised forms of application for search and result of search as set out in Schedule 1 to the Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1361/note",
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  },
  "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."
}