{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-1990/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-1990/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/314",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Delivery of application by facsimile transmission",
  "text": "(1) During the currency of any notice given pursuant to paragraph (2), and subject to and in accordance with the limitations contained in that notice, an application may be made by facsimile transmission to the proper office for:\n(a) an office copy of the entries on the register or a title plan of a registered title or (notwithstanding rule 11(2) of the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1988), a certificate of official inspection of the filed plan, in Form 109 (FAX);\n(b) an office copy of a document referred to in the register of a title, in Form 110 (FAX);\n(c) an official certificate of the result of search of the Index Map, in Form 96.\n(2) If the registrar is satisfied that adequate arrangements have been or will be made for dealing with applications made by facsimile transmission in accordance with this rule, he may, in such manner as he considers appropriate for informing persons who may wish to make such applications, give notice to that effect specifying the class or classes of case covered by those arrangements; and such a notice may in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, specify the class or classes of case so covered by limiting them:\n(a) to one or more of the types of application mentioned in paragraph (1);\n(b) to applications made by a person maintaining a credit account;\n(c) to applications which relate to land within specified counties, districts, London boroughs or other administrative areas;\n(d) to applications made between specified hours and on specified days (which need not be those between or on which the Land Registry is open to the public and may be different for applications of different types);\n(e) where an application is in Form 96 and refers to a parcel of land shown on an accompanying plan, to any such application which is accompanied by a designated plan.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) a notice given pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be current:\n(a) from the time specified in that behalf in the notice; and either\n(b) until the time, if any, specified in that behalf in the notice; or\n(c) if no time of ceasing to be current is specified in the notice, indefinitely.\n(4) A notice given pursuant to paragraph (2) may from time to time be varied, suspended, withdrawn, renewed or replaced by a further notice.\n(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) the registrar may in his discretion refuse to accept an application made by facsimile transmission in any individual case.\n(6) An application may be made by facsimile transmission under the principal rules only in accordance with this rule; and no application may be so made under the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1988 or the Land Registration (Matrimonial Homes) Rules 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/629."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/314/article/5",
    "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."
}