HM Land Registry Practice Guides

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• Private trusts of land (PG24)

  This guide gives advice about applications to HM Land Registry to register transactions involving trustees of land, other than public, ecclesiastical or charitable trustees. It is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also refer to it.

• Adverse possession of registered land (PG4)

  This guide tells you about applications for adverse possession of registered land, the procedures for making these applications and the options available to anyone served with notice of such an application.

• Adverse possession of (1) unregistered land and (2) registered land where a right to be registered was acquired before 13 October 2003 (PG5)

  Aimed at conveyancers, this guide explains HM Land Registry’s approach to applications based on adverse possession for (1) first registration of unregistered land and (2) registration as proprietor of registered land where a squatter was in adverse possession for the requisite limitation period so as to have acquired a right to be registered as proprietor before 13 October 2003. It also explains the procedures for making such applications, and the options available to those served with notice of them.

• Execution of deeds (PG8)

  The aim of this guide is to advise on the execution of deeds that are to be submitted to HM Land Registry. It is aimed at conveyancers, and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly.

• Local land charges (PG79)

  This is the guidance for:

• Profits a prendre (taking natural resources from another's land) (PG16)

  This guide gives advice on:

• Investigation or enforcement proceedings (court, insolvency, tax): applications (PG43)

  This guide is intended solely for the use of:

• Leases: determination (PG26)

  This guide gives you information about the different situations in which leases are determined and how the determination affects registered titles. It gives advice on how to lodge your application with HM Land Registry and sets out the documentation required in support of your application.

• Prescribed clauses leases (PG64)

  This guide gives details about HM Land Registry practice arising from the Land Registration (Amendment) (No 2) Rules 2005. These Rules introduced the presentation of prescribed information in certain registrable leases.

• The leasehold reform legislation (PG27)

  This guide is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also use the guide and it contains some information specifically for their use.

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• Charitable incorporated organisations (PG14a)

  This guide supplements Practice guide 14: charities and deals with the land registration aspects of transactions involving charitable incorporated organisations, including their dissolution. It is aimed at conveyancers and legal advisers to charities and to those acquiring land from charities....

• Restrictions and leasehold properties (PG19A)

  We only provide factual information and impartial advice about our procedures. Read more about the advice we give....

• Souvenir land: guidance on making applications (PG17)

  This guide gives information on land known as souvenir land and advice on making applications to register it....

• Format of registers for titles in Wales (PG58)

  The guide is aimed at conveyancers and other legal advisers and also members of the public and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also refer to it....

• Altering the register by removing land from a title plan (PG77)

  This guide explains:...

• HM Land Registry plans: guide overview (PG40)

  The six supplements deal with specific issues and have been introduced so that information is logically presented and more readily to hand. It is aimed at legal advisers and land professionals such as surveyors; you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also...

• Upgrading the class of title (PG42)

  This guide gives advice on how to apply for the class of title to a registered estate to be upgraded. It is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. It explains the significance of different classes of title granted on registration of estates in land and how,...

• Electronic signatures accepted by HM Land Registry (PG82)

  This guide provides information about when HM Land Registry will accept electronic signatures. It is aimed at conveyancers, and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly....

• Home rights and applications under the Family Law Act 1996 (PG20)

  Aimed at conveyancers, this guide explains how to make applications to register, renew or cancel home rights arising under the Family Law Act 1996, as amended by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (which itself was amended by the Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019). It also...

• Encouraging the use of digital technology in identity verification (PG81)

  This guide sets out the steps required to meet HM Land Registry’s enhanced level of digital identity verification. It includes information on the effect of reaching the standard....