Part 1 Amendments to the Local Land Charges Act 1975

SCHEDULE 5 Transfer of Responsibility for Local Land Charges to Land Registry

Section 34

Part 1 Amendments to the Local Land Charges Act 1975

1

The Local Land Charges Act 1975 is amended as follows.

2

In the italic heading before section 3 for “registers†substitute “registerâ€.

3

For section 3 (registering authorities, local land charges registers, and indexes) substitute—

“The local land charges register

3

(1)     The Chief Land Registrar must keep the local land charges register.

(2)     The local land charges register is a register of—

(a)     each local land charge registered in a local land charges register for a local authority's area immediately before this section first had effect in relation to that area, and

(b)     each local land charge subsequently registered under section 5 or 6 or another relevant enactment in respect of land which is wholly or partly within that area.

(3)     Subsection (2) is subject to any later variation or cancellation of the registration of the local land charge.

(4)     The local land charges register may be kept in electronic form.

(5)     In this section—

“local authority†means—

(a)     a district council,

(b)     a county

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