Local Land Charges Act 1975

14 Rules

(1) The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Treasury as to fees, make rules for carrying this Act into effect and, in particular, rules—

(a) for regulating the practice of registering authorities in connection with the registration of local land charges or matters which, when registered, become local land charges;

(b) as to forms and contents of applications for registration, and the manner in which such applications are to be made;

(c) as to the manner in which the land affected or to be affected by a local land charge is, where practicable, to be identified for purposes of registration;

(d) as to the manner in which and the times at which registrable matters are to be registered ;

(e) as to forms and contents of requisitions for official searches and of official search certificates ;

(f) for regulating personal searches and related matters;

(g) as to the cancellation without an order of the court of the registration of a local land charge on its cesser, or with the consent of the authority or body by whom it is enforceable;

(h) for prescribing the fees, if any, to be paid for the filing of documents with a registering authority, the making of any entry on a register, the supply of copies of, or the variation or cancellation of, any such entry, and the making of any search of a register.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, the power to make rules under that subsection shall include power to make rules (with the concurrence of the Treasury as to fees) for carrying into effect the provisions of any statutory provision by virtue of which any matter is registrable in any local land charges register.

(3) The power to make rules under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.