Communities and Local Government

• Housing
• Publications
• Good practice and guidance
• Personal Searches: Guidance for Local Authorities and Personal Searchers

Housing

---

Summary

This guidance seeks to illustrate and promote good practice for local authority staff and personal searchers on the conduct of personal searches of the Local Land Charges Register and other records open for public inspection held by local authorities.

In particular, the guidance is intended to:

• help foster a better understanding of the respective roles of personal search businesses and local authority local land charges staff;
• assist local authorities to accommodate personal searches in a way which provides access to the Local Land Charges Register and other records open for public inspection while avoiding unnecessary disruption of the work of staff managing those records
• promote good practice and good working relations among local authority staff and personal searchers

Order

• This publication is only available online - see below to download.

Download

• Personal Searches: Guidance for Local Authorities and Personal Searchers
  PDF, 326 kb , 25 pages

Do you need help viewing file formats?

Alternative formats

If you require this publication in an alternative format (eg Braille or audio) please email alternativeformats@communities.gsi.gov.uk quoting the title and product code/ISBN of the publication, and your address and telephone number.