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Direct Access Service Terms and Conditions

The Land Registers of Northern Ireland (hereinafter "LRNI") hereby grants visitors to this web site access to these pages and allows the use of the information contained on it (the “Information”) subject to the terms and conditions set out below:

1.1 General

· access to this web site and the Land Registry Information and the use of the Land Registry information is subject to the laws of Northern Ireland. The Courts of Northern Ireland shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any disputes, which may arise out of or in connection with this web site or the Land Registry Information; OSNI information contained in this service is governed by Crown Copyright.

· provision of this service from LRNI is in respect of the following regulations of Northern Ireland that apply specifically to the service provided by the Land Registry:

· Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

· Registration of Deeds Act 1970 Chapter 25

· The Registration (Land and Deeds ) (Northern Ireland ) Order 1992 - Statutory Instrument 1992 no 911 (N.I. 7)

· Registration of Deeds Regulations (Northern Ireland ) 1997 - Statutory rule of NI 1997 no. 28

· while reasonable care has been exercised in the compilation of the web site and the Information, the LRNI makes no representation or warranty that: (i) the web site or Information will meet your requirements or expectations, (ii) access to the web site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the site will be accurate, complete or reliable and (iv) any errors in the web site will be corrected;

· the LRNI may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the LRNI of the contents on such third-party web sites. As the LRNI has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that the LRNI is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. If you decide to access linked third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. Any concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its respective site administrator or web master;

· In no event shall LRNI and/or its respective suppliers be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents, provision of or failure to provide services, or information available from this Web site

1.2 landweb direct Security Guidelines

1.2.1 Purpose of the Security Guidelines

These security guidelines are established to ensure that all users of the service observe a level of security that safeguards the landweb direct service as a whole and does not jeopardise the security or interests of any other user or organisation.

1.2.2 Conditions for Secure Connection

Your organisation has agreed to abide by a set of ‘Conditions for Secure Connection’ which places obligations on it to abide by a set of conditions to enforce effective security in its use of landweb direct within your organisation. Should you breach the guidelines set out here, you may place your organisation in breach of its obligations. This could lead to the withdrawal of access rights, in serious cases, putting your organisation at a competitive disadvantage.

1.2.3 Your Obligations

You must:
- use the landweb direct services in a professional and proper manner.
- recognise that all information accessed remains Crown Copyrigh.t
- keep your password secure and not disclose it to any other individual, nor hold it as a default within browsers, macros, function keys, etc.
- not allow your account to be used by any other individual.
- ensure that your PC has a timeout function that clears data from the screen and requires password re-entry following a period of inactivity of more than 10 minutes, before resumption of access to the connection.
- report any actual or suspected security breach to your organisation’s nominated security representative or to the LRNI landweb direct Help Desk (02890 251700).
- immediately change your password should there be a suspected or actual security breach, or should you believe that your password may have been compromised or disclosed.

1.2.4 Accountability

You are accountable for the use of your account. Your actions will be logged and may be used in investigations for potential or actual security breaches, misuse, etc.

1.3 Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Customer Licences

1.3.1 Use of the OSNI Data

The landweb direct service permits secure access to up to date OSNI mapping and address data in conjunction with LRNI information. This data may be copied by users of the landweb direct service for their internal business use, for which the following annual copyright licence is payable to OSNI by the landweb direct user.

This annual landweb direct licence replaces any previous copyright licences and is payable to OSNI, therefore any solicitor or other LRNI customer who copies OSNI data sourced via landweb direct is liable to pay the annual landweb direct licence charge. Payment of that charge then allows copying of the Crown Copyright data from landweb direct.

Copying of OSNI data from the landweb direct service by individuals or organisations who have not paid the annual landweb direct licence is not permitted.

1.3.2 Internal Business Use

Internal business use is defined as follows:

Users of the landweb direct service will be able to access OSNI data via the Internet in a controlled (i.e., password protected) manner. LRNI data will be overlaid onto OSNI mapping data and may be extracted and copied for the purposes of the users internal business use, e.g; for conveyancing, registration and other LRNI related transactions.

The commercial exploitation, publication of OSNI material in any form for any other purposes are not permitted. LRNI will advise OSNI of any misuse of OSNI material that comes to their attention, to ensure an appropriate licensing regime is maintained and Crown copyright protected.

1.3.3 Provision of Map Usage Information to OSNI

The LRNI may provide user information to OSNI on a regular basis with respect to those users who have accessed the OSNI map base via the landweb direct service across the Internet. This information may be used by OSNI to verify that a valid OSNI landweb direct licence exists for those customers who through their internal business use need to copy the data.

1.4 Cautionary Notes For Users of Maps

The maps are for location purposes only (Rule 141(1) of the Land Registration Rules (Northern Ireland) 1994 as amended by paragraph 19 of the Schedule to the Amendment Rules 2000))

Folio boundaries are not guaranteed, (Section 64 of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970). The co-incidence of Land Registry markings and OSNI features may have been affected by revisions of the OSNI map subsequent to registration

1.5 Copyright

The contents of these pages are © Crown Copyright 2003. Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions. The Crown copyright material may be reproduced free of charge in any format or media for your personal use without requiring specific permission, provided that the material is being reproduced accurately and shall not be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context.

The permission to reproduce Crown copyright material does not extend to any material on this web site, which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material would need to be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

1.6 Use of the clipboard

This application uses the clipboard and any images or information you may have already placed on the clipboard will be deleted. You must save any information you do not wish to lose before signing in to landweb direct.
 
 
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