SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Provisions supplementary to sections 30 and 31
Release of F5home rights
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
5
1
A F1spouse or civil partner entitled to home rights may by a release in writing release those rights or release them as respects part only of the dwelling-house affected by them.
2
Where a contract is made for the sale of an estate or interest in a dwelling-house, or for the grant of a lease or underlease of a dwelling-house, being (in either case) a dwelling-house affected by a charge registered under section 31(10) or under section 2 of the Land Charges Act 1972, then, without prejudice to sub-paragraph (1), the F2home rights constituting the charge shall be deemed to have been released on the happening of whichever of the following events first occurs—
a
b
the lodging of such an application at Her Majesty’s Land Registry.
Words in Sch. 4 para. 5 heading substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 82, 263, Sch. 9 para. 15(11); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1