Part XII

Miscellaneous

Local land charges registers–computerisation etc.
34
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.
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The text of ss. 27, 34, 38 and 39 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Pt. I: functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1
Pt. III: functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1