Local Land Charges Act 1975

Searches

8 Personal searches

(1) Any person may search in any local land charges register on paying the prescribed fee.

(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, a registering authority may provide facilities for enabling persons entitled to search in the authority's local land charges register to see photographic or other images or copies of any portion of the register which they may wish to examine.

9 Official searches

(1) Where any person requires an official search of the appropriate local land charges register to be made in respect of any land, he may make a requisition in that behalf to the registering authority.

(2) A requisition under this section must be in writing, and for the purposes of serving any such requisition on the Common Council of the City of London section 231(1) of the [1972 c. 70.] Local Government Act 1972 shall apply in relation to that Council as it applies in relation to a local authority within the meaning of that Act.

(3) The prescribed fee shall be payable in the prescribed manner in respect of every requisition made under this section.

(4) Where a requisition is made to a registering authority under this section and the fee payable in respect of it is paid in accordance with subsection (3) above, the registering authority shall thereupon make the search required and shall issue an official certificate setting out the result of the search.