Schedule 11: Minor and Consequential Amendments
Settled Land Act 1925 (c. 18)
292.Paragraph 1 Section 119(3) makes the Settled Land Act 1925 subject to the Land Registration Act 1925 and is no longer required as a result of the Act.
Law of Property Act 1925 (c. 20)
293.Paragraph 2 Section 44 of the Law of Property Act 1925 currently provides that under a contract for the grant of a lease, an intending lessee is not entitled to see the leasehold title out of which it is being granted (if any) or the title to the freehold of that land. The amendment to section 44 removes that restriction for contracts to grant leases that will result in first registration of title. Section 87 is amended to make it clear that although a registered proprietor of land can no longer create a mortgage by demise or sub-demise over registered land, the operation of section 87 is unaffected. The amendment has no application to leases granted out of registered land, even if the title to the registered estate out of which the lease is being granted is registered with less than absolute title. Section 94 of the 1925 Act, which relates to tacking and further advances, is amended to make the regime under section 49 of the Act applicable to all charges over registered land and for the scheme under section 94 to apply to all other charges. The other amendments to the Law of Property Act 1925 are consequential.
Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51)
294.Paragraph 17 amends section 238(3) of the Inheritance Act 1984. Section 238, amongst other things, provides that a purchaser of registered land (or an interest in it) does not take subject to an Inland Revenue charge (to secure the payment of Inheritance Tax) if at the time of the disposition the charge was not protected by a notice in the register. “The time of the disposition” is defined in subsection (3) and currently means in relation to registered land, the time of registration of the disposition. This amendment replicates this but additionally deals with dispositions in relation to registered land which are not required to be completed by registration (for example, a lease out of a registered freehold title not exceeding seven years). In such cases the time of the disposition is the time of completion.
Housing Act 1985 (c. 68)
295.Paragraph 18 amends the Housing Act 1985. Section 37 provides that a conveyance, grant or assignment executed, under section 32, of a house situated in a National Park or in certain other areas shall contain a covenant limiting the freedom of the purchaser to dispose of the house (as therein provided). At present if a disposition of registered land contains such a covenant then the registrar is under a duty if registering the disposition to enter a restriction. The effect of the amendment to section 37(5) is that the registrar will also be under a duty to enter a restriction when he is registering the purchaser’s title under a disposition of unregistered land and the instrument effecting the disposition contains the covenant (for example, a conveyance of the unregistered freehold estate to the purchaser).
296.The substitutions of paragraphs 4 and 5(2) of Schedule 9A to the 1985 Act are intended to have the effect of replacing the existing provisions with similar but clearer provisions.
297.Paragraph 5(3) will cease to have effect. That provision removes the necessity for the land certificate to be produced under section 64(1) of the Land Registration Act 1925 if a qualifying person applies for entry of a notice or restriction. Section 64(1) is (along with the remainder of the 1925 Act) repealed by Schedule 13 to the Act and the circumstances when land certificates are to be produced to the registrar are left to rules under the Act.
298.The words substituted for paragraph 6(1) will have the equivalent effect under the Act in that if the rights of qualifying persons are not protected by notice in the register they will be liable to lose their priority to a registered disposition under section 29.
Building Societies Act 1986 (c. 53)
299.Paragraph 19 will amend paragraph 1 of Schedule 2A to the Building Societies Act 1986 to refer to the Act – paragraph 1 will only deal with discharges of mortgages of unregistered land.
Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (c. 31)
300.Paragraph 20 will substitute references to the Act for references to the Land Registration Act 1925
Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993(c.8)
301.Paragraph 28 adds the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry to the list of judicial officers in Schedule 5 to this Act. Its effect is to apply section 26 under which there is a compulsory retirement age of 70 with the possibility of annual extensions up to the age of 75 (see paragraph 1 of Schedule 9).
Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994 (c. 36)
302.Paragraph 31 amends section 6 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994. Under section 6 of that Act, a person making a disposition is not liable under the covenants implied by the Act for anything that was within the prior knowledge of the person to whom the disposition was made. A new subsection is added to exclude liability for any information that was entered in the register of title relating to that interest at the time of the disposition, the register of title being open to public inspection.
