{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003/article-151",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003/article-151.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1417",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/151",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "151",
  "heading": "Protection of an application on which a protected application is dependent",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), paragraph (2) has effect where an application for an entry in the register is one on which an official search certificate confers a priority period and there is a prior registrable disposition affecting the same registered land, on which that application is dependent.\n(2) An application for an entry in the register in relation to that prior registrable disposition is for the purpose of section 72(1)(a) of the Act an application to which a priority period relates.\n(3) The priority period referred to in paragraph (2) is a period expiring at the same time as the priority period conferred by the official search referred to in paragraph (1).\n(4) Paragraph (2) does not have effect unless both the application referred to in paragraph (1) and the application referred to in paragraph (2) are—\n(a) made before the end of that priority period, and\n(b) in due course completed by registration.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 151 applied (with modifications) (13.10.2003) by The Land Registration Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1953), arts. 1(1), 28(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1417/article/151",
    "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."
}