HM Land Registry Practice Guides

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• 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.

• 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.

• Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests (PG19)

  This guide gives advice about how to apply for a notice or a restriction to protect a third-party interest in a registered estate or charge. It explains the effect of existing register entries in respect of third party interests and explains what applications may be made in respect of existing entries. It is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also refer to it.

• Administration and receivership (PG36)

  Aimed at administrators, administrative receivers, receivers, conveyancers and other legal advisers, to deal with the land registration aspects of applications involving administration and receivership under the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986.

• 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.

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

  This guide explains:

• Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land (PG68)

  This guide details HM Land Registry practice and requirements relating to applications supported by a transfer or deed to update the register to correct a mistake in an earlier deed.

• Boundary agreements and determined boundaries (PG40s4)

  This supplement deals with:

• Corporate insolvency (PG35)

  This guide gives information about applications involving corporate bodies that are insolvent and where a liquidator has been appointed. It is aimed at insolvency practitioners, conveyancers and other legal advisers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also refer to it.

• Discharge of charges (PG31)

  This guide deals with discharges of registered and noted charges and withdrawals of notices of deposit of land and charge certificates. It is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly.

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• Corporate insolvency (PG35)

  This guide gives information about applications involving corporate bodies that are insolvent and where a liquidator has been appointed. It is aimed at insolvency practitioners, conveyancers and other legal advisers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff...

• 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....

• HM Land Registry plans: boundaries (PG40s3)

  This supplement gives an overview of boundaries including general boundaries, boundary ownership and maintenance....

• Address for service (PG55)

  This guide is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also refer to it....

• Rentcharges (PG56)

  Guidance on a variety of points which commonly arise in rentcharge applications, including formal apportionment and redemption. This guide is aimed at conveyancers and members of the public and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly. HM Land Registry staff will also refer to it....

• Registration of mines and minerals (PG65)

  The guide does not seek to be a general guide to the law concerning mines and minerals and it is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly....

• Dispositions executed by Law of Property Act receivers (PG36a)

  Aimed at conveyancers and insolvency practitioners, to deal with transfers and leases of a registered estate where the disposition is executed on behalf of the borrower by a receiver appointed under the provisions of the Law of Property Act 1925....

• Administration and receivership (PG36)

  Aimed at administrators, administrative receivers, receivers, conveyancers and other legal advisers, to deal with the land registration aspects of applications involving administration and receivership under the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986....

• Rectification and indemnity (PG39)

  Aimed at conveyancers, this guide includes information on making an application for rectification and indemnity (including reimbursement of costs and other expenses), on points to consider in cases of fraud and on other circumstances when indemnity may be payable....