General Condition 25 - undertakings regarding Land Registry queries
Conveyancing
19/09/2023
Practitioners are reminded that general condition 25 of the Law Society Conditions of Sale provides that in cases where the sale of unregistered land triggers an obligation on the purchaser to compulsorily register the title post completion, the vendor shall, if requested within six years after the completion of the sale and at the expense of the purchaser:
- supply any additional information the vendor may reasonably be able to supply; and
- produce and furnish any documents in the vendor’s possession which may be required to effect the first registration.
Unless General Condition 25 has been amended to remove this obligation, the Committee considers that it is not necessary for the purchaser to require the vendor to provide an undertaking to assist with Land Registry queries and such undertakings should not be sought.