The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Bankruptcy) and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016

Land Charges Act 1972

4.—(1) The Land Charges Act 1972(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 5 (the register of pending actions)(2)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) a bankruptcy application.”;

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) at the end of paragraph (a) omit “and”;

(ii) at the end of paragraph (b) insert “and”;

(iii) after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) if it relates to a bankruptcy application, the date on which the bankruptcy application was made.”;

(c) after subsection (6) insert—

“(6A) No fee shall be charged for the registration of a bankruptcy application.”;

(d) in subsection (8) before “petition in bankruptcy” insert “bankruptcy application or”.

(3) In section 6(6) (the register of writs and orders affecting land)(3)—

(a) before “petition in bankruptcy” insert “bankruptcy application or”;

(b) for the words from “either the registration of the petition” to the end of the section substitute—

“either—

(a) the registration of the application or the petition is in force; or

(b) a receiving order on the application or the petition is registered under this   section.”.

(4) In section 16(2) (general rules)(4) before “petition in bankruptcy” insert “bankruptcy application or”.

(1)

1972 c.61.

(2)

Section 5 was amended by the County Courts Act 1984 (c.28) Schedule 2, Part 4, paragraph. 17, the Insolvency Act 1985 (c.65) section 235(1) and (3), Schedule 8, paragraph 21(2), and Schedule.10, Part 3 and the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994 (c.36) section 15(3).

(3)

Section 6(6) was amended by the Insolvency Act 1985 (c.65) section 235(1) and (3), Schedule. 8, paragraph. 21(3) and Schedule 10, Part 3.

(4)

Section 16(2) was amended by the Insolvency Act 1985 (c.65) Schedule 8, paragraph 21(4) and the Insolvency Act 1986 (c.45) section 439(2) and Schedule 14 and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) sections 15(1), 146 and 235(1), Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraph 75 and Schedule 18, Part 2, paragraph 1.