Under the Land Registration Rules 2003, rule 54C and Schedule 2, the Chief Land Registrar may, if satisfied that adequate arrangements have been made or will be in place for dealing with (i) documents in electronic form that purport to effect particular dispositions or (ii) applications and other matters by means other than post, DX or personal delivery, give notice publicising the arrangements.
The Chief Land Registrar has given notice of the arrangements in the attached Notices.
Notice 23, which allows HC1 applications to be delivered by email, has been withdrawn, effective from 27 September 2024.
Notice 19 has been amended to reflect the services currently available through Business Gateway.
Notice 19 has been amended to provide transparency and clarification on how HM Land Registry receives, accepts and rejects applications lodged through Business Gateway.
Suspension of certain notices as a result of essential maintenance work on all HM Land Registry electronic services from 16:00 hours on Friday 25 August 2023 until 06:30 hours on Tuesday 29 August 2023.
Notice 2 has been amended as a result of an increase to the scope of the Qualified Electronic Signature Pilot to include a legal charge that is a remortgage of a registered estate, is a first charge and the chargor is the registered proprietor of the registered estate when the legal charge is created.
Notice 25 has been amended as we can now accept applications to register a transfer by operation of law and a release from a charge (DS3) through our Digital Registration Service.
Notice 17 has been amended as a result of an enhancement to Business Gateway to allow applicants to apply for an official search using a new schema which will provide a PDF certificate as normal but also receive information contained in the certificate as data which can be utilised in case management systems.
Notice 28 has been amended to remove the specific reference to an application form relating to no more than one application, as HM Land Registry can accept a single form relating to multiple names where they are all names of corporations aggregate.
Notice 25 has been amended as a lease is now a permitted application using the Digital Registration Service.
Notice 6 has been amended to reflect revised arrangements for customer attendance at HM Land Registry offices and to include documents which are not kept in an electronic format in certain situations.
Notice 25 has been amended as we can now accept applications to register transfers and assents of part and for the removal of Form A restrictions through our Digital Registration Service.
Notice 28 added which allows applications by email for a search in the index of proprietors names.
Notice 12 has been withdrawn as a result of the closure of HM Land Registrys Find a Property service.
Notice 19 has been amended. A new API (Registered Proprietor Name) has been added to Business Gateway to give customers the same name checking ability as already available via DRS through Portal.
Notice 2 has been amended to increase the number of transactions where a qualified electronic signature can be used and so enable more to be learnt from the Pilot.
Notice 27 has been amended. You can now inspect title plans and caution plans through HM Land Registry's Search for land and property service.
Notice 25 has been amended as we now accept applications through our Digital Registration service where one or more parties is acting by an attorney.
Notice 17 has been amended. The ability for business gateway users to request information regarding the Official Copies documents available to order. For any documents referred to in a title register, the service will provide users with details of the documents that HM Land Registry holds copies of, as well as an indication of whether that document will be available for immediate download or may require manual investigation. The service will also provide information about availability for immediate download of that titles register and plan, as well as indicate if the title is currently subject to a pending application.
