HM Land Registry Practice Guides

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• Leases: when to register (PG25)

  This guide deals with the compulsory and voluntary registration aspects of leasehold estates in land, including those that cannot be registered.

• Return and rejection of applications for registration (PG49)

  This guide gives advice on how to avoid the rejection of applications to change the register. It gives examples of defects in applications that we consider to be serious enough to reject the application and return the papers.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Restrictions and leasehold properties (PG19A)

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

• 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.

• Evidence of identity (PG67)

  This guide explains when evidence of identity is required and how it should be given. It is aimed at conveyancers and you should interpret references to ‘you’ accordingly.

• First registrations (PG1)

  This guide deals with the procedure to be followed when applying for first registration of unregistered estates in land. It does not deal with the effects of registration or the characteristics of the various classes of title with which land may be registered.

Featured documents

• Official searches (PG12)

  This guide gives advice on the purpose and effect of the various types of official search applications that may be made with HM Land Registry. It is aimed at purchasers, their legal advisers and non-purchasers who want to update the information they hold in an official copy of the register....

• 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....

• Easements claimed by prescription (PG52)

  This guide gives advice on:...

• Personal insolvency (PG34)

  This guide explains which entries you can make in the register of a title where the proprietor, or one of the proprietors, is a person subject to bankruptcy proceedings. It also explains how insolvency affects powers of disposition. It is aimed at conveyancers and trustees in bankruptcy....

• Easements (PG62)

  This guide tells you about registration of easements under the Land Registration Act 2002. It does not seek to be a general guide to the law concerning easements....

• Using our forms for complex and more unusual transactions (PG21)

  This guide is aimed at conveyancers....

• Leases: when to register (PG25)

  This guide deals with the compulsory and voluntary registration aspects of leasehold estates in land, including those that cannot be registered....

• 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....