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Article 156 Issue of official search certificate without priority

England and Wales

(1)

If an application for an official search without priority is in order, an official search certificate without priority must be issued.

(2)

An official search certificate without priority may, at the registrar's discretion, be issued in one or both of the following ways—

(a)

in paper form, or

(b)

under rule 132(2).

(3)

Subject to paragraph (4), an official search certificate without priority issued under paragraph (2) must include such information specified in Part 3 of Schedule 6 as the case may require and may be issued by reference to an official copy of the individual register of the relevant registered title.

(4)

If an official certificate of search is to be, or has been, issued in paper form under paragraph (2)(a), another official search certificate issued under paragraph (2)(b) in respect of the same application need only include the information specified at A, F, G and H of Part 3 of Schedule 6, as the case may require.