{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-1990/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-1990/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/314",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:\n“credit account” means an account authorised by the registrar under Article 14(1) of the Land Registration Fee Order 1990;\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 298 mm and a width no greater than 210 mm (A4 paper size);\n“dwelling” means a building or part of a building occupied or intended to be occupied as a separate dwelling, together with any yard, garden, outhouse and garage belonging to it;\n“parcel of land” means all or any part of:\n(a) a dwelling; or\n(b) any other land which is separately occupied or if not separately occupied, in separate ownership; and for this purpose an owner is the person who (in his own right or as trustee for any other person) is entitled to receive the rack rent of land, or, where the land is not let at a rack rent, would be so entitled if it were so let;\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 Registration (District Registries) Order 1989.\n(2) A form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the Schedule to these rules.\n(3) 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. 1990/172."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O. 1925/1093; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/1601, 1986/1534."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1902."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/314/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:27:25.628520+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."
}