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Private Trusts of Land / Property

Cancellation and Withdrawal of restrictions:

Application to cancel restrictions:
When a restriction is no longer required, Conveyancing Solicitors and Property Lawyers can apply to cancel it under rule 97 Land Registration Rules 2003. The application must be made in form RX3, and must be accompanied by evidence to satisfy the Registrar that the restriction is no longer required. if the Registrar is so satisfied, the restriction must be cancelled.

The circumstances when such an application might be made include either:
- when a Form A restriction is registered, but a sole or sole surviving proprietor has become the sole beneficial owner. Evidence of the equitable title will have to accompany the application. This may take the form of an appropriate Deed or Deeds, a Will, a Court Order or a Statutory Declaration, depending on the circumstances.
- when a Form A restriction is registered but, as a result of a change in the trusts, the registered proprietors have become entitled as beneficial joint tenants. Again, evidence of the equitable title will be required
- when a Form B or C restriction is registered but, as a result of a change in the trusts, the powers of the trustees are no longer limited under section 8 TLATA. Evidence of the variation of the trusts - usually a deed or a Court Order - will be required, or
- certain restrictions registered before 1997 may have been rendered wholly or partially obsolete by section 6(1) TLATA, which gives trustees of Land, for the purpose of exercising their functions, all the powers of an absolute owner.

To cancel the restriction, Conveyancing Solicitors and Property Lawyers will need to satisfy the Registrar that there is no limitation on the powers of the trustees by virtue of section 8 TLATA, and that any disposition will not contravene the provisions of section 6(6) or 6(8) of that Act. In some cases it may be possible to cancel the restriction if the trustees apply to replace it with form B restriction. In other cases, it may be more appropriate to apply to modify it under section 41(2) Land Registration Rules 2002.

Applications to withdraw restrictions:
A restriction can be withdrawn, under rule 98 Land Registration Rules 2003, with the consent of all persons who have an interest in it. Conveyancing Solicitors and Property Lawyers must apply in form RX4.

However, Conveyancing Solicitors and Property Lawyers cannot normally apply to withdraw a Form A, B or C restriction. They can apply to cancel them, on the grounds that they are no longer required.

It may however be possible to withdraw a voluntary restriction associated with a trust, for example one requiring the consent of a named beneficiary. In that case, the consent of the beneficiary concerned would be required, as well as that of the trustees.

Change of trustees:

Keeping names and addresses up to date:
It is important for trustees to keep their names and their addresses for service on the register (Property Title Deeds) up to date. If they do not, they may not receive notices served by Land Registry or others.

Appointment and discharge of trustees:

Using a Transfer:
This is the simplest way to register new trustees, but requires the cooperation of all the outgoing ones.

A form TR1 or TR5 can be used instead of a tradition deed of appointment of a new trustee or a Conveyance or Assignment that is made in consequence of the appointment of a new trustee of unregistered Land that will lead to compulsory first registration under the new trustee trigger.

The existing trustees or registered proprietors should execute a transfer, using form TR1 or TR5, to the continuing and new trustees. A transfer used purely to effect the appointment of new or additional trustees does not require a land transaction return certificate or self-certificate. None of the statements in the consideration panel should be completed. The additional provisions panel of the transfer should state:
'This transfer is made for the purpose of giving effect to the appointment of new Trustees'

Conveyancing Solicitors and Property Lawyers can use a transfer either in place of, or in addition to, a separate deed of appointment or discharge. If they have used a separate deed, the statement in the additional provisions panel of the transfer can be in words such as:
'This transfer is made pursuant to a deed of appointment of new trustees dated today'. Land Registry will not normally need to see the deed of appointment.

The transfer must be by all the outgoing proprietors to all the continuing and new proprietors. Suppose for example, that A, B and C are the existing trustees, and that C is retiring and being replaced by D, who will be a trustee jointly with A and B, A B and C must be shown as the transferors and A B and D as the transferees. A, B and C must all execute it.

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