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Displaying 611 - 615 of 782Land Registration Rules 2003 (S.I. No. 1417 of 2003).
Part 1 of the Rules makes provisions about the form and arrangement of the register to be kept under the Land Registration Act 2002. Part 2 makes provision about the indices to be kept under the Act. Part 3 makes provisions about applications to the registrar and objections to them; Part 4 deals with applications for first registration of land. Part 5 of the Rules makes provisions about cautions against first registration. Part 6 makes further provisions about applications to the registrar, dispositions of registered land, and the making of miscellaneous entries in the register.
Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2005 (S.I. No. 1766 of 2005).
These Rules amend the Land Registration Rules 2003. Rule 1 provides for citation and commencement and rule 2 for interpretation. Rule 3 makes a consequential amendment to rule 91(1) of the principal rules, arising from rule 4. Rule 4 adds a new rule, rule 91A to the principal rules. This allows a number of standard forms of restriction to refer to dispositions of a specified part of the registered estate. It also allows changes in other standard. Rules 5 and 8 amend rules 92(2) and 198(2)(d) of the principal rules respectively. Other changes concern standard forms and registration.
Environmental Stewardship (England) and Organic Products (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. No. 2003 of 2005).
The amendments to the Organic Products Regulations 2004 are as follows: a) the definition of "the Council Regulation" is amended to refer to the latest amending instrument, namely Commission Regulation (EC) 2254/2004 (regulation 2(a)(ii)); b) the reference to the Compendium of UK Organic Standards, May 2004 edition, in the definition of "specified Community provisions" is replaced with a reference to the Compendium of UK Organic Standards, July 2005 Edition (reg.
Leasehold Valuation Tribunals (Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (W.S.I. No. 1356 (W.104) of 2005).
The amendments made by regulations 3, 4(b), 7 and 8(c) are consequential on the commencement of section 168 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act. Section 168 of the 2002 Act prevents a landlord from serving a notice to forfeit a lease for breach by a tenant of a covenant or condition in the lease, unless the tenant admits the breach or it has been finally determined that the breach has occurred. Under section 168(4), a landlord may apply to a leasehold valuation tribunal for a determination that a breach of covenant or condition has occurred.
Countryside Access (Means of Access, Appeals etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. No. 1270 (W.90) of 2005).
Part I of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 makes provision for access to the countryside. Section 35 of the Act relates to agreements between access authorities and owners and occupiers of land with respect to the means of access to land over which there is a public right of access under section 2 of the Act ("access land").