Practice guides
Our practice guides are mainly intended for conveyancers and cover a range of topics on land registration practice and procedures. They are designed to help solicitors and conveyancers to process transactions.
Our Public guides are designed to help people without specialist knowledge to understand the most common aspects of land registration.
We can advise you about procedure but cannot give you legal advice. Please check our advisory policy for more information.
| Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Practice Guide 1 | First registrations | 08/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 2 | First registration of title where deeds have been lost or destroyed | 28/05/2012 |
| Practice Guide 3 | Cautions against first registration | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 4 | Adverse possession of registered land | 15/03/2013 |
| Practice Guide 5 | Adverse possession of (1) unregistered land (2) registered land where a right to be registered was acquired before 13 October 2003 |
21/12/2012 |
| Practice Guide 6 | Devolution on the death of a registered proprietor | 22/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 7 | Entry of price paid or value stated on the register | 08/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 8 | Execution of deeds | 22/03/2013 |
| Practice Guide 9 | Powers of attorney and registered land | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 10 | Official searches of the index map | 23/04/2012 |
| Practice Guide 11 | Inspection and applications for official copies | 17/12/2012 |
| Practice Guide 12 | Official searches and outline applications | 17/12/2012 |
| Practice Guide 13 | Official searches of the index of relating franchises and manors | 23/04/2012 |
| Practice Guide 14 | Charities | 20/07/2012 |
| Practice Guide 15 | Overriding interests and their disclosure | 23/04/2012 |
| Practice Guide 16 | Profits a prendre in gross | 08/02/2013 |
| Practice Guide 17 | Souvenir land | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 18 | Franchises | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 19 | Notices, restrictions and the protection of third party interests in the register | 13/05/2013 |
| Practice Guide 20 | Applications under the Family Law Act 1996 | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 21 | Using transfer forms for less straightforward transactions | 01/02/2011 |
| Practice Guide 22 | Manors | 01/03/2010 |
| Practice Guide 24 | Private trusts of land | 22/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 25 | Leases – when to register | 03/06/2013 |
| Practice Guide 26 | Leases – determination | 13/05/2013 |
| Practice Guide 27 | The leasehold reform legislation | 08/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 28 | Extension of leases | 01/11/2011 |
| Practice Guide 29 | Registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of charge | 15/10/2012 |
| Practice Guide 30 | Approval of mortgage documentation | 20/04/2012 |
| Practice Guide 31 | Discharges of charges | 29/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 32 | Bulk applications affecting one or more Land Registry office | 26/11/2012 |
| Practice Guide 33 | Large scale applications (calculation of fees) | 24/10/2012 |
| Practice Guide 34 | Personal insolvency | 17/09/2012 |
| Practice Guide 35 | Corporate insolvency | 17/09/2012 |
| Practice Guide 36 | Administration and receivership | 08/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 36A | Receivers appointed under the provisions of the Law of Property Act 1925 | 08/04/2013 |
| Practice Guide 37 | Objections and disputes – A guide to Land Registry practice and procedures | 01/07/2011 |
| Practice Guide 38 | Costs | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 39 | Rectification and indemnity | 28/09/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40 | Land Registry plans - Guide overview | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40-S1 | Land Registry plans - Supplement 1 - The basis of Land registry plans | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40-S2 | Land Registry plans - Supplement 2 - Guidance for preparing plans for Land Registry applications | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40-S3 | Land Registry plans - Supplement 3 - Boundaries | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40-S4 | Land Registry plans - Supplement 4 - Boundary agreements and determined boundaries | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40-S5 | Land Registry plans - Supplement 5 - Title plan | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 40-S6 | Land Registry plans - Supplement 6 - Other Land Registry plan related services and guides | 22/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 41 | Developing estates - registration services | 01/08/2010 |
| Practice Guide 41-S1 | Developing estates - registration services - Supplement 1 - Estate boundary approval | 01/03/2013 |
| Practice Guide 41-S2 | Developing estates - registration services - Supplement 2 - Estate plan approval | 01/03/2013 |
| Practice Guide 41-S3 | Developing estates - registration services - Supplement 3 - Approval of draft transfers and leases | 01/03/2013 |
| Practice Guide 41-S4 | Developing estates - registration services - Supplement 4 Plot sales - transfers and leases | 01/11/2009 |
| Practice Guide 41-S5 | Developing estates - registration services - Supplement 5 Detailed plan requirements and surveying specifications - guidance for surveyors | 01/11/2011 |
| Practice Guide 41-S6 | Developing estates - registration services - Supplement 6 Voluntary application to note overriding interests | 01/08/2010 |
| Practice Guide 42 | Upgrading the class of title | 15/02/2013 |
| Practice Guide 43 | Applications in connection with court proceedings, insolvency and tax liability | 06/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 44 | Fax facilities | 20/05/2013 |
| Practice Guide 45 | Receiving and replying to notices by email | 01/10/2003 |
| Practice Guide 46 | Land Registry forms | 15/10/2012 |
| Practice Guide 47 | Transfers of public housing estates | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 48 | Implied covenants | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 49 | Return and rejection of applications for registration | 03/06/2013 |
| Practice Guide 50 | Requisition and cancellation procedures | 21/09/2012 |
| Practice Guide 51 | Areas served by Land Registry offices | 20/05/2013 |
| Practice Guide 52 | Easements claimed by prescription | 19/10/2012 |
| Practice Guide 54 | Acquisition of land by general vesting declaration under the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 | 26/11/2012 |
| Practice Guide 55 | Address for service | 01/02/2013 |
| Practice Guide 56 | Formal apportionment and redemption of a rent or a rentcharge that affects a registered estate | 26/11/2012 |
| Practice Guide 57 | Exempting documents from the general right to inspect and copy | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 58 | Land Registry's Welsh Language Scheme – register format | 21/12/2012 |
| Practice Guide 59 | Receiving and replying to requisitions by email | 01/08/2004 |
| Practice Guide 60 | Commonhold | 26/11/2012 |
| Practice Guide 61 | Telephone Services (guide withdrawn as a result of the closure of Land Registry's telephone services centres) | 17/12/2012 |
| Practice Guide 62 | Easements | 01/02/2011 |
| Practice Guide 63 | Land Charges - Applications for registration, official search, office copy and cancellation | 17/12/2012 |
| Practice Guide 64 | Prescribed clauses leases | 15/10/2012 |
| Practice Guide 65 | Registration of mines and minerals | 23/04/2012 |
| Practice Guide 66 | Overriding interests losing automatic protection in 2013 | 28/05/2013 |
| Practice Guide 67 | Evidence of identity – conveyancers | 16/11/2012 |
| Practice Guide 68 | Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land | 03/06/2013 |
| Practice Guide 69 | Islamic financing | 01/10/2010 |
| Practice Guide 70 | Nil-rate band discretionary trusts | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 71 | Electronic services | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 72 | Development schemes | 01/02/2011 |
| Practice Guide 73 | Statements of truth | 01/10/2011 |
| Practice Guide 74 | Searches of the index of proprietors' names | 26/11/2012 |
| Practice Guide 75 | Transfer under a chargee's power of sale | 01/06/2012 |
| Practice Guide 76 | Charging orders | 01/04/2013 |
