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Registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of charge (PG29)

Advice for conveyancers on registration of legal charges and deeds of variation (practice guide 29).

From:: HM Land Registry
~~Published~~Published:: 13 October 2003
Last ~~updated~~updated:: 610 ~~May~~August ~~2025~~2026 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

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Practice guide 29: registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of charge

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This guide gives advice on the registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of the terms of a registered charge at HM Land Registry. It is aimed at conveyancers.

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Published 13 October 2003

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10 August 2026
Section 4 has been amended to request that the information that is provided on written confirmations or certificates is identical to the information requested when you apply using the Digital Registration Service.

6 May 2025
Section 4 has been amended to give guidance on how to remove a note in the charges register entered pursuant to section 859H of the Companies Act 2006.
17 April 2023
Section 3 has been amended to explain our practice where a single application is made to register two or more charges at the same time and their priority order differs from their dates of creation.
3 October 2022
Section 3 has been amended to clarify when a plan should be included with a charge of part.
1 August 2022
Sections 3 and 15 have been amended to refer to the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022.
23 March 2020
Section 4 has been amended to clarify when we will enter the note referred to in section 859H of the Companies Act 2006.
2 March 2020
Section 5 has been amended to clarify when a restriction will not be automatically cancelled on a discharge of a charge.
4 February 2019
Section 4 has been amended to refer to the correct section of the Companies Act 2006. Section 14.1 has been amended to clarify that a digital mortgage can be used only to create remortgages of a borrower’s existing property. Section 14.2 has been amended as the service is no longer in the private phase.
30 July 2018
Section 6 has been amended to clarify that an application to register a lender’s obligation to make further advances must be made by the lender or their conveyancer.
19 February 2018
A new section 14 about digital mortgages has been added to this guide.
28 November 2016
Section 11 has been amended to refer to the register completion sheet rather than the title information document.
7 October 2016
Video about How to avoid Land Registry requisitions: Company charges added
14 December 2015
Section 12.1 has been amended as we have revised our practice on local authority signatories to letters of postponement.
11 August 2015
Section 12 has been added detailing our practice on the postponement of charges.
24 June 2015
Link to the advice we offer added.
20 April 2015
Section 9.1 has been amended to make it clear that when you lodge a scanned image of an approved charge for registration, the ‘MD’ reference of the charge must clearly appear on the scanned image.
3 December 2014
Welsh translation added.
13 October 2003
First published.