The Land Registry has published new guidance for situations where deeds lodged for registration require correction or alteration. It also advises on how to deal with the situations that can arise.
A completed deed may need to be altered if the owners (or their successors) decide that its effect should be changed, if a clerical or other error in the drafting of the original deed has not been noticed until after it has been completed or if the circumstances on which the original deed was based have changed.
Practice guide 68 – Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land outlines the procedures that need to be followed where the original deed has been registered, and distinguishes them from those that apply where the deed has not been lodged for registration or where the application to register has not been completed.
The guide also advises practitioners on situations where a subsequent deed, drawn up for the purpose of correcting or altering a registered original deed, needs to follow one of the prescribed forms of transfer and/or comply with other specific requirements of the Land Registration Act 2002 and rules.
