{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1993/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1993/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3276",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-official-searches-rules-1993",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Issue of official certificate of search without priority",
  "text": "(1) On completion of the official search without priority an official certificate of search without priority shall be issued and such certificate shall not confer on the applicant priority for the registration of any dealing.\n(2) An official certificate of search without priority may, at the registrar’s discretion, be issued in one, or more than one, of the following ways:\n(a) in the form set out under the heading “Official Certificate of Result of Search” in Form 94C (Result);\n(b) in documentary form;\n(c) 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, by any means of communication, other than the means referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b).\n(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), an official certificate of search without priority issued under paragraph (2) shall include the information specified in Part I of Schedule 2 and may be issued by reference to an office copy of the register.\n(4) Where the official certificate of search is issued in Form 94C (Result) or in documentary form, under paragraph (2), together with the relevant application form, or a copy of that application form, it need not include any of the information referred to in paragraph (3) which appears on that application form.\n(5) Where an official certificate of search is issued under paragraph (2)(c) and another official certificate of search is to be, or has been, issued under paragraph (2)(b) in respect of the same application, it need only include the information specified at A, F, G, and H, of Part I of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3276/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:26.502632+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}