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Local land charges registers, registration and related mattersE+W

3 Registering authorities, local land charges registers, and indexes.E+W

(1)Each of the following local authorities—

(a)the council of any district,

[F1(aa)a Welsh county council;

(ab)a county borough council;]

(b)the council of any London borough, and

(c)the Common Council of the City of London,

shall be a registering authority for the purposes of this Act.

(2)There shall continue to be kept for the area of each registering authority—

(a)a local land charges register, and

(b)an index whereby all entries made in that register can readily be traced,

and as from the commencement of this Act the register and index kept for the area of a registering authority shall be kept by that authority.

[F2(3)Neither a local land charges register nor an index such as is mentioned in subsection (2)(b) above need be kept in documentary form.]

(4)For the purposes of this Act the area of the Common Council of the City of London includes the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.