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Article 7 Inspection in connection with criminal proceedings, receivership under certain Acts and insolvency

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

If a person referred to in column 1 of Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2 to these rules:

(a)

applies in Form 112A or 112B whichever is appropriate to make an inspection under this rule in relation to a person specified in the application or to a property so specified; and

(b)

gives the registrar the appropriate certificate (completed to contain all particulars required) referred to in column 2 of the said Schedule;

the registrar shall permit him to inspect and to obtain copies of and extracts from any document falling within section 112(2) of the principal act and shall, if so requested (and notwithstanding rule 9 of the principal rules), provide him with the result of a search of the index of proprietors' names in relation to the person specified in the application.

(2)

Where a person applies under paragraph (1) he may apply in Form 112A or 112B whichever is appropriate for inspection of or office copies of the entries on the register or title plan of a registered title or a document referred to in the register of a title which is in the custody of the registrar.

(3)

An application under this rule shall be delivered to such office of H.M. Land Registry as the registrar may direct.

(4)

In Schedule 2 to these rules

(a)

references to senior executive officers include references to equivalent depart mental grades;

(b)

references to an official receiver are references to an official receiver for the purpose of the Insolvency Act 1986f1 or the Companies Act 1985f2 or a person acting as a deputy to such an official receiver;

(c)

references to a trustee in bankruptcy are references to a trustee in bankruptcy of a person adjudged bankrupt in England and Wales or Northern Ireland or to a permanent or interim trustee in the sequestration of a debtor’s estate in Scotland;

(d)

references to the official assignee are references to the Official Assignee for bankruptcy for Northern Ireland or the Official Assignee for company liquidations for Northern Ireland; and

(e)

references to a liquidator or administrator are respectively references to a liquidator or administrator appointed for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1986 c. 45.

f2

1985 c. 6.