Infrastructure Act 2015

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

“3 The local land charges register

(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 council in England for an area for which there is no district council,

  (c)

  a county council in Wales,

  (d)

  a county borough council,

  (e)

  a London borough council,

  (f)

  the Common Council of the City of London, or

  (g)

  the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

• “relevant enactment” means a provision which is made by or under an Act and which provides for the registration of a charge or other matter as a local land charge.

(6) For the purposes of this section the area of the Common Council of the City of London includes the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 5 para. 3 in force at 12.4.2015, see s. 57(5)(e)