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  "title": "The Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1993",
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  "long_title": "These Rules, which replace the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1990, provide:that searches with priority delivered by a purchaser, otherwise than in documentary form or by facsimile transmission, are deemed to be delivered at the time notice of them is entered on the day list maintained by the Land Registry under rule 7A of the Land Registration Rules 1925. Official searches with priority received in documentary form or by facsimile transmission after 0930 hours on one day but before or at 0930 hours on the next are, as at present, deemed to be delivered immediately before 0930 hours on the second day;that the date to be specified in an application for a search in respect of a registered title as the date from which the search is to be made shall be a search from date as defined in rule 2(1);for revised forms of application for search and result of search as set out in Schedule 1 to the Rules.",
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