{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003/article-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003/article-126.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1417",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/126",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Alteration under a court order—not rectification",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), if in any proceedings the court decides that—\n(a) there is a mistake in the register,\n(b) the register is not up to date, or\n(c) there is an estate, right or interest excepted from the effect of registration that should be given effect to,\nit must make an order for alteration of the register under the power given by paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 4 to the Act.\n(2) The court is not obliged to make an order if there are exceptional circumstances that justify not doing so.\n(3) This rule does not apply to an alteration of the register that amounts to rectification.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 126 excluded (27.9.2004) by THE COMMONHOLD (LAND REGISTRATION) RULES 2004 (S.I. 2004/1830), rules 1, 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1417/article/126",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:23:26.253122+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."
}