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Land Charges Act 1972

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Preliminary

    1. 1.The registers and the index

  3. Registration in register of land charges

    1. 2.The register of land charges

    2. 3.Registration of land charges

    3. 4.Effect of land charges and protection of purchasers

  4. Registration in registers of pending actions, writs and orders and deeds of arrangement

    1. 5.The register of pending actions

    2. 6.The register of writs and orders affecting land

    3. 7.The register of deeds of arrangement affecting land

    4. 8.Expiry and renewal of registrations

  5. Searches and official searches

    1. 9.Searches

    2. 10.Official searches

  6. Miscellaneous and supplementary

    1. 11.Date of effective registration and priority notices

    2. 12.Protection of solicitors, trustees, etc.

    3. 13.Saving for overreaching powers

    4. 14.Exclusion of matters affecting registered land or created by instruments necessitating registration of land

    5. 15.Application to the Crown

    6. 16.General rules

    7. 17.Interpretation

    8. 18.Consequential amendments, repeals, savings, etc.

    9. 19.Short title, commencement and extent

  7. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Annuities

      1. 1.No further entries shall be made in the register of...

      2. 2.An entry of an annuity made in the register of...

      3. 3.The register shall be closed when all the entries in...

      4. 4.An annuity which before 1st January 1926 was capable of...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Class A Land Charges

      1. 1.Charges created pursuant to applications under the enactments mentioned in...

      2. 2.The following provisions of paragraph 1 above shall cease to...

      3. 3.The references in paragraph 1(g) above to sections 72, 73,...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Consequential Amendments

      1. Law of Property Act 1925

        1. 1.In section 97 of the Law of Property Act 1925...

      2. Land Charges Act 1925

        1. 2.In section 15 of the Land Charges Act 1925 (registration...

        2. 3.Subsection (6) of that section shall cease to have effect....

        3. 4.After subsection (7) there shall be inserted—

        4. 5.In section 19 of that Act (general rules), for paragraphs...

        5. 6.In section 20 of that Act (definitions)—

      3. Agricultural Credits Act 1928

        1. 7.For section 9(7) of the Agricultural Credits Act 1928 (agricultural...

      4. Matrimonial Homes Act 1967

        1. 8.(1) In section 2(5) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967...

        2. 9.In section 3 of that Act (restriction on registration where...

        3. 10.In section 4(1) of that Act (cancellation of charge before...

        4. 11.In section 5 of that Act (cancellation of registration after...

        5. 12.In section 6(2) of that Act (release of rights of...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      The Land Charges Act 1925, As Amended

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Repeals

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