Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These rules may be cited as the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1990 and shall come into force on 3rd December 1990.

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:

• “the 1990 Rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1990^f1;

• “the principal act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;

• “the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925^f2;

• “proper office” means the district land registry designated as the proper office by article 2(2) of the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989^f3;

• “title plan” means the filed plan or General Map referred to in a register of a registered title.

Except in rule 11 of these rules, a form referred to by a number means the form so numbered in Schedule 1 to these rules.

Expressions used in these rules have, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the principal rules.