Land Charges Act 1925

1Registers at the land registry

PART IPending Actions

2Register of pending actions

3Protection of purchasers against unregistered pending actions

PART IIAnnuities

4Register of annuities

5Protection of purchasers, &c. against unregistered annuities

PART IIIWrits and Orders affecting Land

6Register of writs and orders affecting land

7Protection of purchasers against unregistered writs and orders

PART IVDeeds of Arrangement

8Register of deeds of arrangement affecting land

9Protection of purchasers against unregistered deeds of arrangement

PART VLand Charges

10Register of land charges

11What land charges take effect as legal mortgages

12Expenses of registering land charges

13Protection of purchasers against land charges created after certain dates

14Protection of purchasers against a land charge (Classes A, B or C) not registered within one year from assignment

PART VILocal Land Charges

15Registration of local land charges

PART VIISearches and Official Searches

16Power to make searches

17Official certificates of search

PART VIIIGeneral

187 Anne, c.20, not to apply to certain instruments

19General rules

21Effect of registration under any Part of Act

22Saving of overreaching powers

23Application to registered land

25Application to the Crown.

26Short title, commencement and extent.

SCHEDULERepeals

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Land Charges Act 1925

1925 CHAPTER 22

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the registration of pending actions, annuities, writs, orders, deeds of arrangement and land charges, and to searches.

[9th April 1925]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—