{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/28",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Deeds Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Common search, negative search and public search",
  "text": "(1) A common search shall be carried out in accordance with the requisition to which it relates by one officer of the registry of deeds.\n(2) A negative search shall be carried out in accordance with the requisition to which it relates by two officers of the registry of deeds (independently of each other), who shall agree as to the result.\n(3) Any person may—\n(a) during the hours when the registry of deeds is open to the public for the transaction of business, and\n(b) in the presence of any officer of that registry,\nsearch, inspect and examine, and make extracts from or short notes of, the indices, abstracts, transcript books and files and books of memorials and of other documents registered under the Registration of Deeds Acts.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Registry of Deeds (Days and Hours of Business) Order 1958 (S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1958 No. 193)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/28",
      "affecting_title": "Registration of Deeds Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/28/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:08.039983+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."
}