Land Registration Act 1925

120 Power to make orders rendering registration compulsory in certain areas.

(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, declare, as respects any county or part of a county mentioned or defined in the Order, that, on and after a day specified in the Order, registration of title to land is to be compulsory on sale:

Provided that nothing in this Act or in any such Order shall render compulsory the registration of the title to an incorporeal hereditament or to mines and minerals apart from the surface, or to corporeal hereditaments parcel of a manor and included in the sale of a manor as such.

(2) Any such Order may be made—

(a) at any time at the instance of the county council concerned; and

(b) at any time after the expiration of ten years from the commencement of this Act otherwise than at the instance of a county council ;

subject in either case to compliance with the provisions hereinafter contained relating to such Orders respectively:

Provided that any proceedings preliminary to the making of the first Order to be made otherwise than at the instance of a county council may be taken before the expiration of the said period.

(3) Any Order made under this section shall be made with due regard to the utilisation, if practicable, of any land registry existing in the county to which the order relates or conveniently near thereto.

(4) In the event of any portion of a county as regards which an Order has been made under this Part of this Act or under any corresponding provision in any enactment replaced by this Act being included in another county as regards which no Order has been so made, such Order shall cease to be in force within such included portion of the county.

(5) In the event of any portion of a county as regards which no Order has been made being included in another county as regards which an Order has been so made, such Order shall apply to such included portion of the county.

(6) Any Order made under this Part of this Act or under any corresponding provision in any enactment replaced by this Act may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order.

(7) For the purposes of this Part of this Act, " county" means the administrative county, and includes, a county borough, and " county council" includes, the council of such a borough.