{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-deeds-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Index of Names",
  "text": "(1) The Index of Names shall consist of a series of files or books and each series shall cover a maximum period of five years.\n(2) The pages in each file or book shall be in alphabetical order according to the surname and first forename of the grantor entered thereon and shall contain an entry for each grantor specified in a registered document.\n(3) Each entry in the Index of Names shall contain the following—\n(i) the surname, first forename and the initial letter of each subsequent forename of each grantor specified in a registered document followed where there is more than one such grantor by the words “and another” or “and others” as the case may require;\n(ii) the surname, first forename and the initial letter of each subsequent forename of a grantee specified in the registered document followed where there is more than one such grantee by the words “and another” or “and others” as the case may require;\n(iii) the county in which the land affected by the registered document is situate;\n(iv) the letter “G” for any land described in general words which cannot be allocated as in sub-paragraph (iii);\n(v) the serial number allocated to the registered document under regulations 5 and 6.\n(4) All such entries shall when practicable be made and completed before the time of the final closure of the registry of deeds to the public on the third working day after the day on which such registered document is or, as the case may be, is treated as lodged for registration. If it is impracticable to make and complete the entries within this time, the registrar shall cause a public notice to be posted in a conspicuous part of the registry of deeds stating to what day such entries have been made and completed.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "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/9",
    "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."
}