Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982

34 Local land charges registers-computerisation etc.

In the Local Land Charges Act 1975—

(a) the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (3) of section 3 (which provides for the keeping of local land charges registers and indexes of such registers)—

“(3) Neither a local land charges register nor an index such as is mentioned in subsection (2) (b) above need be kept in documentary form.”;

(b) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) of section 8 (personal searches)—

“(1A) If a local land charges register is kept otherwise than in documentary form, the entitlement of a person to search in it is satisfied if the registering authority makes the portion of it which he wishes to examine available for inspection in visible and legible form.”;

(c) in subsection (2) of that section, for the words " subsection (1) " there shall be substituted the words " subsections (1) and (1A) ";

(d) in section 10(1) (compensation)—

(i) the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (a)—

“(aa) in a case where the appropriate local land charges register is kept otherwise than in documentary form and a material personal search of that register was made in respect of the land in question before the relevant time, if the entitlement to search in that register conferred by section 8 above was not satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1A) of that section ; or”; and

(ii) the words " in consequence" shall be substituted for the words from " by reason " onwards ; and

(e) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) of section 16 (interpretation)—

“(1A) Any reference in this Act to an office copy of an entry includes a reference to the reproduction of an entry in a register kept otherwise than in documentary form.”.