{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-land-charges-rules-1977/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-land-charges-rules-1977/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/985",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Land Charges Rules 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-land-charges-rules-1977",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Delivery of applications",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 10(5) of the Act, it shall be regarded as practicable for a registering authority to register a charge on the day on which the application for registration is delivered or treated in accordance with paragraph (2) below as having been delivered.\n(2) An application for registration delivered between the time when the office of the registering authority closes and the time when it next opens shall be treated as having been delivered immediately after that interval.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/985/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:57:37.666024+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."
}