Registration in registers of pending actions, writs and orders and deeds of arrangement
6 The register of writs and orders affecting land.
1
There may be registered in the register of writs and orders affecting land—
a
any writ or order affecting land issued or made by any court for the purpose of enforcing a judgment or recognisance;
b
any order appointing a receiver or sequestrator of land;
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any bankruptcy order, whether or not the bankrupt’s estate is known to include land,
F2d
any access order under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992.
2
Every entry made pursuant to this section shall be made in the name of the estate owner or other person whose land, if any, is affected by the writ or order registered.
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Where a person has died and any such writ or order as is mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) above would apart from his death have been registered in his name, it shall be so registered notwithstanding his death.
3
No fee shall be charged for the registration of a F4bankruptcy order if the application for registration is made by an official receiver.
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Except as provided by subsection (5) below and by F5section 37(5) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 and F6section 107(3) of the County Courts Act 1984 (which make special provision as to receiving orders in respect of land of judgment debtors) every such writ and order as is mentioned in subsection (1) above, and every delivery in execution or other proceeding taken pursuant to any such writ or order, or in obedience to any such writ or order, shall be void as against a purchaser of the land unless the writ or order is for the time being registered under this section.
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Subject to subsection (6) below, the title of a trustee in bankruptcy shall be void as against a purchaser of a legal estate in good faith for money or money’s worth unless the bankruptcy order is for the time being registered under this section.
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Where a petition in bankruptcy has been registered under section 5 above, the title of the trustee in bankruptcy shall be void as against a purchaser of a legal estate in good faith for money or money’s worth . . . F8 claiming under a conveyance made after the date of registration, unless at the date of the conveyance either the registration of the petition is in force or a receiving order on the petition is registered under this section.