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Land Registry has published a new guide where deeds lodged for registration require correction or alteration. It also gives advice about how to deal with the different situations that can arise.

A completed deed sometimes needs to be altered if the owners (or their successors) decide that its effect should be changed. For example, there may be a clerical or other error in the drafting of the original deed that is not spotted until after it has been completed. Or if the circumstances on which the original deed was based have changed, the owners may decide that the effect of the deed should be altered to reflect the change.

Practice Guide No 68 - Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land outlines the procedures that need to be followed where the original deed has already been registered, and distinguishes these from where the deed has not been lodged for registration, or where the application to register it has not yet been completed.

The guide also advises practitioners about situations where a later deed, drawn up for the purpose of correcting or altering an original deed that has already been registered, needs to follow one of the prescribed forms of transfer and/or comply with other specific requirements of the 2002 Land Registration Act and Rules.

Pascal Lalande, from Land Registry's Registration Change Group said:

"Most deeds, which include registrable dispositions such as transfers from sellers to buyers; leases from landlords to tenants and legal charges from property owners to lenders are completed and registered without any problems.

"However, in order to help customers avoid any registration pitfalls, we have produced a new guide which discusses the different issues that need to be considered when deeds lodged for registration require correction or alteration."


Notes to editors

1. Practice Guide 68 - Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land can be downloaded from www.landregistry.gov.uk and is available free from any Land Registry office.

2. With the largest transactional database of its kind detailing over 22 million titles, Land Registry underpins the economy by safeguarding ownership of many billions of pounds worth of property.

3. As a government department established in 1862, executive agency and trading fund responsible to the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Land Registry keeps and maintains the Land Register for England and Wales. The Land Register has been an open document since 1990.

4. For further information about Land Registry visit www.landregistry.gov.uk 

Contacts


Land Registry Press Office


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Marion Shelley

Land Registry
Phone: 020 7166 4543

Email: marion.shelley@landregistry.gsi.gov.uk 


Daljinder Mattu


Phone: 020 7166 4487

Email: daljinder.mattu@landregistry.gsi.gov.uk