Hill Farming Act 1954

2 Registration of conditions applied to cottages under s.10 of the Hill Farming Act, 1946.

(1) Any conditions applied to a cottage in England or Wales by virtue of regulations made after the passing of this Act under the said section ten shall be registered in the prescribed manner in the register of local land charges by the proper officer of the council of the county borough or county district in which the cottage is situated; and it shall be the duty of the appropriate Minister to notify the proper officer of the council in whose area the cottage is situated of any conditions to be registered under this subsection, and to furnish him with all necessary information relating thereto.

(2) The power conferred by subsection (6) of section fifteen of the [15 & 16 Geo. 5 c. 22.] Land Charges Act, 1925, to make rules for giving effect to the provisions of that section shall be exercisable for giving effect to the foregoing subsection, and in that subsection the expression " prescribed " means prescribed by rules made in the exercise of that power.

(3) Where any conditions apply to a cottage in Scotland by virtue of regulations made as aforesaid the appropriate Minister shall cause to be recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines a notice in such form as may be prescribed by the said regulations specifying the conditions which by virtue of the said regulations apply to the cottage; and where the aforesaid conditions cease to apply to a cottage the appropriate Minister shall cause to be recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines a notice in a form prescribed as aforesaid stating that the conditions no longer apply to the cottage.

(4) Any conditions applied to a cottage in Northern Ireland by virtue of regulations made as aforesaid shall be included amongst the matters which are required to be registered in the Statutory Charges Register; and accordingly the following paragraph shall be added to subsection (1) of section two of the Statutory Charges Register Act (Northern Ireland), 1951:—

“(l) Any conditions applied to a cottage by virtue of regulations under section ten of the Hill Farming Act, 1946.”

(5) For the purposes of section six of the [10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67.] Government of Ireland Act, 1920 (which relates to the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws) subsection (4) of this section shall be deemed to have been passed before the date appointed for the purposes of the said section six.