SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Transfer of responsibility for local land charges to Land Registry

PART 4Transitional provision

Interpretation

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1

In this Part of this Schedule—

  • “local authority” means—

    1. a

      a district council,

    2. b

      a county council in England for an area for which there is no district council,

    3. c

      a county council in Wales,

    4. d

      a county borough council,

    5. e

      a London borough council,

    6. f

      the Common Council of the City of London, or

    7. g

      the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

  • “the old register”, in relation to a local authority, means the local land charges register kept by the authority under the Local Land Charges Act 1975 before the relevant date;

  • “the new register” means the local land charges register kept by the Chief Land Registrar under the Local Land Charges Act 1975;

  • “the relevant date”, in relation to a local authority, means the date on which Parts 1 and 3 of this Schedule first had effect in relation to the authority's area.

2

For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the area of the Common Council of the City of London includes the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.

3

Expressions used in this Part of this Schedule and in the Local Land Charges Act 1975 have the same meaning as in that Act.