Local Land Charges Act 1975

17 Amendments of other statutory provisions

(1) The [1972 c. 61.] Land Charges Act 1972 shall be amended as follows:—

(a) for section 1(3) there shall be substituted—

“(3) Where any charge or other matter is registrable in more than one of the registers kept under this Act, it shall be sufficient if it is registered in one such register, and if it is so registered the person entitled to the benefit of it shall not be prejudicially affected by any provision of this Act as to the effect of non-registration in any other such register.

(3A) Where any charge or other matter is registrable in a register kept under this Act and was also, before the commencement of the Local Land Charges Act 1975, registrable in a local land charges register, then, if before the commencement of the said Act it was registered in the appropriate local land charges register, it shall be treated for the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to the effect of non-registration as if it had been registered in the appropriate register under this Act; and any certificate setting out the result of an official search of the appropriate local land charges register shall, in relation to it, have effect as if it were a certificate setting out the result of an official search under this Act.”;

(b) in section 2(4) and in section 2(5) the words " (not being a local land charge)" shall be inserted after " any of the following ".

(2) Schedule 1 to this Act (which contains consequential amendments of other Acts and of a Measure) shall have effect.