HM Land Registry (HMLR) have announced the new practice guide 82 (PG82) covering HMLR’s acceptance of electronic signatures.
This guide brings together material on electronic signatures, most of which has previously been found, in substantively the same terms, in a number of practice guides and in a signature table published on GOV.UK. The guide sets out the different forms of electronic signatures which HMLR can accept and the documents in respect of which they can be used.
It also explains a form of electronic signature (a Qualified Electronic Signature) that can currently only be used by firms taking part in a pilot, but which will, we hope, be available more widely in due course.
This guide is NOT concerned with electronic signatures that are used in documents creating interests which are only going to be the subject of a unilateral or agreed notice: we can proceed with the application for the entry of the notice regardless of the form of electronic signature used.
