Land Registration and Land Charges Act 1971

12 Meaning of " Her Majesty's Land Registry "

Section 126(1) of the Land Registration Act 1925 (which provides that there shall continue to be an office in London to be called Her Majesty's Land Registry) shall not be construed as requiring the whole of the business of Her Majesty's Land Registry to be conducted in London; and for the purposes of any provision in the Land Charges Act 1925 or in section 9 (registration of agricultural charges) of the Agricultural Credits Act 1928 requiring any register or index to be kept at that Registry or otherwise requiring or authorising anything to be done at or delivered or sent to that Registry (including any such provision of the Land Charges Act 1925 as applied by the said section 9), any reference to that Registry shall, if the Chief Land Registrar so directs, be read as a reference to such office of that Registry (whether in London or elsewhere) as may be specified in the direction.