PART IIDEFINITION OF “PROPER OFFICE”

Amendment to rule 1

2.  The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (5A) of rule 1:

“(5A) “Proper office” for the purposes of any application means the district registry within whose district, as constituted by orders made from time to time under section 132(1) of the Act, the land to which the application relates is situated or, where it is situated in the districts of two or more district registries, either or any of those district registries.”

Revocation of rules 24(4) and 83(2)

3.  Rules 24(4)(1) and 83(2)(2) are revoked.

Amendments to rules other than the principal rules

4.—(1) The definitions of “proper office” in rule 1(2) of the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991(3) and rule 2(1) of the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1993(4) are revoked.

(2) The following is substituted for the definition of “proper office” in rule 2(1) of the Land Registration (Matrimonial Homes) Rules 1990(5):

• ““proper office” has the meaning given to it by rule 1(5A) of the Land Registration Rules 1925(6).”