Frequently used guidance

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Practice Bulletin 11 - Stamp duty land tax - clarification of rejection criteria

Jan-08

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 12 - Electronic documents

Jul-08

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 13 - Discontinuing the use of watermarked paper

Sep-08

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 14 - Transfers by registered chargees under their power of sale and alteration of the register in respect of noted estate contracts

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 15 - e-CSF (electronic charge in standard form)

Jan-09

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 16 - Early completion

Apr-09

Legal profession and lenders

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 17 - The Land Registration Fee Order 2009

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Bulletin 18 - Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2009

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

This is an ephemeral item not subject to review

Practice Guide 1 - First registrations

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 2 - First registration of title where deeds have been lost or destroyed

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 3 - Cautions against first registration

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 4 - Adverse possession of registered land

Aug-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 5 - Adverse possession of (1) unregistered land (2) registered land where a right to be registered was acquired before 13 October 2003

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 6 - Devolution on the death of a registered proprietor

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 7 - Entry of price paid or value stated on the register

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 8 - Execution of deeds

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 9 - Powers of attorney and registered land

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 10 - Official searches of the index map

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 11 - Inspection and applications for official copies

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 12 - Official searches and outline applications

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 13 - Official searches of the index of franchises and manors

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 14 - Charities

Apr-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 15 - Overriding interests and their disclosure

Dec-05

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 16 - Profits a prendre in gross

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 17 - Souvenir land

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 18 - Franchises

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 19 - Notices, restrictions and the protection of third party interests in the register

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 20 - Applications under the Family Law Act 1996

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 21 - Using transfer forms for less straightforward transactions

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 22 - Manors

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 23 - Electronic lodgement of applications to change the register

Jul-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 24 - Private trusts of land

Apr-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 25 - Leases - when to register

Apr-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 26 - Leases determination

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 27 - The leasehold reform legislation

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 28 - Extension of leases

Nov-06

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 29 - Registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of charges

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 30 - Approval of mortgage documentation

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 31 - Discharges of charges

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 32 - Bulk applications affecting one or more Land registry offices

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 33 - Large scale applications (calculation of fees)

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 34 - Personal insolvency

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 35 - Corporate insolvency

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 36 - Administration and receivership

Oct-05

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 37 - Objections and disputes - A guide to Land egistry practice and procedures

Mar-07

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 38 - Costs

Aug-06

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 39 - Rectification and indemnity

Aug-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 40 - Land Registry plans

Oct-05

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Developing estates - registration services

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Supplement 1 - Estate Boundary Approval

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Supplement 2 - Estate Plan Approval

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Supplement 3 - Approval of draft transfers and leases

Oct-05

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Supplement 4 - Plot sales - transfers and leases

Oct-05

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Supplement 5 - Detailed plan requirements and surveying specifications - guidance for surveyors

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 41 - Supplement 6 - Voluntary application to note overriding interest

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 42 - Upgrading the class of title

Nov-06

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 43 - Applications in connection with court proceedings, insolvency and tax liability

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 44 - Fax facilities

Oct-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 45 - Receiving and replying to notices by e-mail

Oct-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 46 - Land Registry forms

Oct-08

Legal profession and forms producers

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 47 - Transfers of public housing estates

Aug-03

Legal profession and forms producers

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 48 - Implied covenants

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 49 - Return and rejection of applications for registration

Aug-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 50 - Requisition and cancellation procedures

Aug-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 51 - Areas served by Land Registry offices

Oct-09

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 52 - Easements claimed by prescription

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 53 - Scheme Titles

Mar-03

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 54 - Acquisition of land by general vesting declaration under the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 55 - Addess for service

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 56 - Formal apportionment of a rent or a rentcharge that effects a registered estate

Jun-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 57 - Exempting documents from the general right to exempt and copy

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 58 - Land registry's Welsh Language Scheme - register format

Jul-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 59 - Receiving and replying to requisitions by email

Aug-04

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 60 - Commonhold

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 61 - Telephone Services

Nov-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 62 - Easements

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 63 - Land Charges - Applications for registration, official search, office copy and cancellation

May-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 64 - Prescribed Clauses Leases

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 65 - Registration of mines and minerals

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 66 - Overriding interests losing automatic protection in 2013

Nov-08

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 67 - Evidence of identity - conveyancers

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Practice Guide 68 - Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land

Jul-09

Legal profession

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 1 - A guide to the information that we keep and how you can obtain it

Oct-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 2 - Keeping your address for service up to date

Apr-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 3 - General Land Registry information

Aug-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 4 - Protecting Matrimonial Home Rights under the Family Law Act 1996

Jun-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 5 - Your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998

Mar-03

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 8 - Registering title to land - the characteristics and advantages

Aug-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 9 - What to do when a landowner dies

Nov-07

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 10 - Bankruptcy petitions

Nov-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 11 - Bankruptcy orders

Nov-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 13 - Applications for first registration made by the owner in person

Jun-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 14 - Sales of "titles" and Land Registry

Jan-04

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 15 - Your rights under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Jun-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 16 - "Free land and property" - advertisements about claiming land in England and Wales

Mar-05

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 17 - How to safeguard against property fraud

Jun-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 18 - Joint property ownership

Nov-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 19 - Title plans and boundaries

Aug-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 20 - Evidence of identity - non-conveyancers

Nov-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 21 - Land banking schemes - buying land in England and Wales claimed or thought to have development pontential

Dec-08

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Public Guide 22 - Keeping your name in the register up to date

Apr-09

Members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Desk Aid CDA1

Oct-09

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Ready reference guide - Information services fees

Jul-09

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Ready reference guide - Registration services fees

Jul-09

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Landnet

Sep-09

Legal profession

Best practice

Published quarterly

Customer Service - Putting things right

Feb-09

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Customer Service - English to Welsh Glossary of Legal Terms

Aug-04

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Customer Service - Geographic Information Charter Standards Statement

No date

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Customer Service - Customer Care Policy

Sep-08

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice

When legislative or practice changes dictate

Register Development - Making property transactions easier for all

2005/6

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice


Register Development - Voluntary first registration

2005/6

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice


Register Development - Desktop guide for completing form FR1

2005/6

Legal profession and members of the public

Best practice