Part XII Miscellaneous

34 Local land charges registers–computerisation etc.

In the Local Land Charges Act 1975—

(a)

the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (3) of section (3) (which provides for the keeping of local land charges registers and indexes of such registers)—

“(3)

Neither a local land charges register nor an index such as is mentioned in subsection (2)(b) above need be kept in documentary form.” ;

(b)

the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) of section 8 (personal searches)—

“(1A)

If a local land charges register is kept otherwise than in documentary form, the entitlement of a person to search in it is satisfied if the registering authority makes the portion of it which he wishes to examine available for inspection in visible and legible form.” ;

(c)

in subsection (2) of that section, for the words “subsection (1)” there shall be substituted the words “ subsections (1) and (1A) ” ;

(d)

in section 10(1) (compensation)—

(i)

the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (a)—

“(aa)

in a case where the appropriate local land charges register is kept otherwise than in documentary form and a material personal search of that register was made in respect of the land in question before the relevant time, if the entitlement to search in that register conferred by section 8 above was not satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1A) of that section ; or” ; and

(ii)

the words “ in consequence ” shall be substituted for the words from “by reason” onwards; and

(e)

the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) of section 16 (interpretation)—

“(1A)

Any reference in this Act to an office copy of an entry includes a reference to the reproduction of an entry in a register kept otherwise than in documentary form.”.