Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 1330

The Public Trustee (Notices Affecting Land)(Title on Death) Regulations 1995

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1995 No. 1330

TRUSTEES

The Public Trustee (Notices Affecting Land)(Title on Death) Regulations 1995

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 19 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994^[1], hereby makes the following Regulations—

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Public Trustee (Notices Affecting Land) (Title on Death) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st July 1995.

Interpretation
    2.    In these Regulations—
 (a) "the Act" means the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994;
 (b) a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Keeping and recording of documents served under section 18 of the Act
    3.—(1)  The Public Trustee shall keep a register on which he shall record the details set out in paragraph (2) in respect of every document which is—
 (a) served on him under section 18 of the Act, and
 (b) is accompanied by an application to register in Form NL(1).

    (2)  The details referred to in paragraph (1) are—
 (a) the name of the deceased person;
 (b) a description of the land to which the document relates; and
 (c) the date on which the entry on the register was made.

    (3)  The Public Trustee shall file every document in respect of which a registration is made against the name of the deceased person in respect of whom the document is served.

Search of the register
    4.—(1)  A person shall be entitled to request the Public Trustee to search the register against the name of a deceased person by sending to him an application to search in Form NL(2).

    (2)  On receipt of such a request the Public Trustee shall cause a search to be made in the register against the name of the deceased person in the exact form provided to him by the applicant.

    (3)  The Public Trustee shall notify the applicant of the result of the search, and in the event that it reveals an entry on the register, shall send to him a copy of the document whose service on the Public Trustee caused the registration to be made.

Mackay of Clashfern,
C.

Dated 17th May 1995

[1] 1994 c. 36. back

Explanatory Note