The Land Registration (Execution of Deeds) Rules 1990

Made: 23rd April 1990

Laid before Parliament: 11th May 1990

Coming into force: 31st July 1990

The Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Rule Committee appointed in pursuance of section 144 of the Land Registration Act 1925[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, hereby makes the following rules:

Citation and commencement

1

These rules may be cited as the Land Registration (Execution of Deeds) Rules 1990 and shall come into force on 31st July 1990.

New form 19

2

Form 19 in the Schedule to these rules shall be substituted for Form 19 in the Schedule to the Land Registration Rules 1925[^f00002].

THE SCHEDULE

FORM 19 — — Transfer of Freehold Land (Whole). h m land registry

Signed

Mackay of Clashfern, C. — Dated 23rd April 1990

Explanatory note

(This note does not form part of the Rules)

The rules substitute a new form for Form 19 in the Schedule to the Land Registration Rules 1925 (Transfer of Freehold Land (Whole)). The new form dispenses with the requirement for sealing when execution is by an individual and prescribes different forms of attestation where execution of the transfer is by:

• (i) an individual party signing in person;

• (ii) a person signing by direction on behalf of an individual party;

• (iii) a company registered under the Companies Acts under its common seal; and

• (iv) a company registered under the Companies Acts not under a common seal.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1925 c. 21.

[^f00002]: S.R. & O. 1925/1093.