Land registration—notices and priority under the Land Registration Act 2002


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Practice notes

Land registration—notices and priority under the Land Registration Act 2002


Published by a ÀÏ˾»úÎçÒ¹¸£Àû Property expert

Practice notes
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This Practice Note considers:

  1. •

    the basic rule for priority under the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002)

  2. •

    exceptions to the basic rule under LRA 2002, ss 29 and 30

  3. •

    how the entry of an agreed notice or a unilateral notice can be used to protect the priority of an interest in registered land (including practical examples)

  4. •

    which interests can be protected by an agreed or unilateral notice, and

  5. •

    the process for entering and cancelling an agreed notice or a unilateral notice

It also briefly discusses registrar’s notices.

This Practice Note does not cover official searches with priority in any detail—see instead Practice Note: Pre-completion searches.

It also does not cover other ‘special case’ transactions or circumstances that may affect priority between interests, such as:

  1. •

    overreaching—see Practice Notes: Overreaching—sales by trustees of land and Overreaching by a mortgagee

  2. •

    rectification of the register—see Practice Note: Land registration—alteration and rectification of the title register and the grounds for indemnity

  3. •

    deeds of priority—see Practice Note: Priority between security interests

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What does Notice mean?

In a contractual context, a notice may be to terminate the agreement, or may be the notice required to do a certain thing under the contract. Notices usually must comply with certain formalities set out in the contract, and certain time limits.

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