The Land Registration Act 2002 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1725 (C.73)

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration Act 2002 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2003

Made

8th July 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 136(2) of the Land Registration Act 2002(1), makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Land Registration Act 2002 (Commencement No.4) Order 2003.

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), all the provisions of the Land Registration Act 2002 (“the Act”) not already in force shall come into force on 13th October 2003.

(2) The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 13th October 2004—

(a) section 98(1);

(b) paragraph 5(4) and (5) of Schedule 6 and, to the extent that it relates thereto, section 97.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lammy

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 8th July 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 13th October 2003 all the provisions of the Land Registration Act 2002, (“the Act”) not already in force except for—

• section 98(1), which provides an adverse possessor with a defence to a possession action if he is entitled to apply to be registered as proprietor in circumstances where the condition in paragraph 5(4) of Schedule 6 to the Act would have been satisfied; and

• paragraph 5(4) and (5) of Schedule 6 to the Act, which relates to applications for registration of an adverse possessor as proprietor of an estate in land that is adjacent to land already belonging to him.

These provisions will come into force on 13th October 2004.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
s 128	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 129	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 130	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 131	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 132	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 134 (in part)	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 136	4.04.2003	2003/935
s 107	28.04.2003	2003/1028
s 133 (in part)	28.04.2003	2003/1028
Schedule 9	28.04.2003	2003/1028
Schedule 11 (in part)	28.04.2003	2003/1028
s 102	27.06.03	2003/1612

(1)

2002 c. 9.