{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-open-register-rules-1991/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-open-register-rules-1991/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/122",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-open-register-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991 and shall come into force on 30th March 1992.\n(2) In these Rules, unless the context requires:\n“The Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;\n“caution title” means:\n(a) the document prepared by the registrar which records, under a distinguishing number, details of any caution against first registration lodged under section 53 of the Act and of the statutory declaration in support of that caution; and\n(b) the plan, referred to in that document, prepared by the registrar, showing the extent of the land effected by the caution;\n“credit account” means an account authorised by the registrar under article 15(1) of the Land Registration Fees Order 1991;\n“designated plan” means a plan which is a copy or extract from the Ordnance Map at the largest scale published for the area in which the land to which it relates is situated, such plan to have a length no greater than 297 mm and a width no greater than 210 mm (A4 paper size);\n“Index Map section” means the document or documents comprising a single section of the index Maps maintained by the registrar under rule 8 of the principal rules, and the associated Parcels Index (if any) maintained by the registrar under rule 274 of the principal rules;\n“the 1990 Rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1990;\n“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925;\n“proper office” means the district land registry designated as the proper office by article 2(2) of the Land Registgration (District Registries) Order 1991;\n“title plan” means the filed plan or portion of the General Map referred to in the register of a registered title.\n(3) Except in rule 15, a form referred to by a number means the form so numbered in Schedule 1.\n(4) Expressions used in these rules have, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the principal rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1948."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/314; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1990/1362."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R.& O. 1925/1093; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1976/1332, 1978/1601, 1990/314."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2634."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/122/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:30:35.920159+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."
}