SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Consequential amendments relating to deeds

The Law of Property Act 1925

1

The M1Law of Property Act 1925 shall be amended as follows.

2

In section 52(2)(e) for the words “not required by law to be under seal” there shall be substituted the words “ other than those falling within section 115 below ”.

3

In section 74(2) for the words “not under seal” there shall be substituted the words “ which is not a deed ”.

4

In section 80(1) for the words from “under” to “eighty-one” there shall be substituted the words “ made under seal after 31st December 1881 but before the coming into force of section 1 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 or executed as a deed in accordance with that section after its coming into force ”.

5

The following subsection shall be added at the end of section 81—

“(5)

In its application to instruments made after the coming into force of section 1 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 subsection (1) above shall have effect as if for the words “under seal, and a bond or obligation under seal,” there were substituted the words “bond or obligation executed as a deed in accordance with section 1 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989”.”