Local Land Charges Act 1975

19 Repeals and transitional provisions

(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act (which include certain spent provisions) and the instrument there specified are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall operate to impose any obligation to register or apply for the registration erf any local land charge within the meaning of this Act which immediately before the commencement of this Act was by virtue of subsection (7)(b)(i) of section 15 of the [1925 c. 22.] Land Charges Act 1925 not required by that section to be registered as a local land charge, except after the expiration of one year from the commencement of this Act; and a purchaser shall not be entitled to compensation under section 10 above by virtue of section 10(1)(a) or, where the charge was not registered at the time of the search, section 10(1)(b) in respect of a local land charge which at the time of the search was not required to be registered.

(3) Where any matter was immediately before the commencement of this Act registrable in a local land charges register, then, if the matter was, immediately before the said commencement, registered in the appropriate local land charges register nothing in this Act shall affect the status of any rights therein as overriding interests under section 70(1)(i) of the [1925 c. 21.] Land Registration Act 1925, whether or not the matter is a local land charge within the meaning of this Act.

(4) In so far as any entry subsisting in a local land charges register at the commencement of this Act could have been made in that register pursuant to this Act, or to any statutory provision amended by or under this Act, it shall be treated as having been so made, but nothing in this Act shall render enforceable against any purchaser whose purchase was completed before the commencement of this Act any local land charge which immediately before the commencement of this Act was not enforceable against him.