The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2013
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2013/1627 |
| Year | 2013 |
2013 No. 1627
Land Registration, England And Wales
The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2013
Made 1st July 2013
Laid before Parliament 3rd July 2013
Coming into force 1st October 2013
The Secretary of State makes the following order in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 100(3) of the Land Registration Act 20021.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2013 and shall come into force on 1st October 2013.
Applications to which this Order applies
2.—(1) This Order applies to any application to the registrar except an application delivered to the registrar—
(a)
(a) in accordance with a written arrangement as to delivery made between the registrar and the applicant or between the registrar and the applicant’s conveyancer, or
(b)
(b) under the provision of any relevant notice given under Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Rules 20032.
(2) In this article “conveyancer” means—
(a)
(a) an authorised person entitled to carry on the relevant reserved instrument activities in accordance with the regulatory arrangements of the relevant approved regulator or licensing authority, as the case may be,
(b)
(b) an individual or body who employs, or being a body has among its managers, at least one authorised person entitled to carry on the relevant reserved instrument activities and who will carry on or direct and supervise the carrying on of the relevant reserved instrument activities as such employee or manager, in accordance with the regulatory arrangements of the relevant approved regulator or licensing authority, as the case may be, or
(c)
(c) a person who carries on the relevant reserved instrument activities in the course of that person’s duty as a public officer,
and for the purposes of this definition—
(i)
(i) “authorised person” has the same meaning as in section 18 of the Legal Services Act 20073,
(ii)
(ii) “licensing authority” has the same meaning as in section 73 of the Legal Services Act 2007,
(iii)
(iii) “manager” has the same meaning as in section 207 of the Legal Services Act 2007,
(iv)
(iv) “regulatory arrangements” has the same meaning as in section 21 of the Legal Services Act 2007,
(v)
(v) “relevant approved regulator” has the same meaning as in section 20 of the Legal Services Act 2007,
(vi)
(vi) “relevant reserved instrument activities” means the reserved instrument activities set out in paragraph 5(1)(a) and (b) of Schedule 2 to the Legal Services Act...
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