{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003/article-203",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003/article-203.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1417",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/203",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "203",
  "heading": "Retention of documents accompanying an application",
  "text": "(1) The registrar may retain all or any of the documents that accompanied any application.\n(2) The registrar may destroy any document retained under paragraph (1) if he is satisfied that either—\n(a) he has made and retained a sufficient copy of the document, or\n(b) further retention of the document is unnecessary.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 203 substituted (6.4.2018) by virtue of The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/70), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 30(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 203 heading substituted (6.4.2018) by The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/70), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 30(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1417/article/203",
    "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."
}