Draft rules laid before Parliament under section 128(5) of the Land Registration Act 2002, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Draft Statutory Instruments
Land Registration, England And Wales
Made
Date
Coming into force in accordance with rule 1
These rules are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 92(2) and 128(1) of, and paragraphs 1(4), 2, 3 and 11 of Schedule 5 to, the Land Registration Act 2002(1).
The Lord Chancellor has consulted such persons as he considered appropriate, in accordance with paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 5 to that Act.
The Lord Chancellor in making rules under paragraphs 1(4) and 3(2)(a) of Schedule 5 to that Act has had regard, in particular, to the matters set out in paragraph 11(3) of Schedule 5 to that Act.
In accordance with section 128(5) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
Accordingly, the Lord Chancellor makes the following rules:
1. These rules may be cited as the Land Registration (Network Access) Rules 2008 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.
2.—(1) In these rules unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the Land Registration Act 2002,
“address for service” means an address for service for the purposes of a network access agreement, pursuant to paragraph 1 of Schedule 2,
“business day” is a day when the land registry is open to the public under rule 216 of the principal rules,
“full network access agreement” has the meaning given in rule 3(1),
“intervention” means an intervention—
by the Law Society under section 35 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Solicitors Act 1974(2), section 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1985(3), or section 89 of, and Schedule 14 to, the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(4), or
by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers under section 31 of, and Schedule 5 to, or section 32 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1985,
“notice of termination” means a notice of the kind described in rule 8(2),
“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 2003(5),
“read-only network access agreement” has the meaning given in rule 3(2),
“signature network access agreement” has the meaning given in rule 3(3),
“Subscriber” means the person who is a party to a network access agreement with the registrar, and
“subsequent appeal” does not include an appeal out of time with permission.
(2) References to an electronic signature are to be read in accordance with section 7(2) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(6).
(3) In rules 7, 8, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 and 3, a reference to an agreement is to a full network access agreement.