SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 U.K.Transfer of responsibility for local land charges to Land Registry

PART 4 E+WTransitional provision

Interpretation E+W

44 (1) In this Part of this Schedule— E+W

• “local authority” means—

  (a)

  a district council,

  (b)

  a county council in England for an area for which there is no district council,

  (c)

  a county council in Wales,

  (d)

  a county borough council,

  (e)

  a London borough council,

  (f)

  the Common Council of the City of London, or

  (g)

  the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

• “the old register”, in relation to a local authority, means the local land charges register kept by the authority under the Local Land Charges Act 1975 before the relevant date;

• “the new register” means the local land charges register kept by the Chief Land Registrar under the Local Land Charges Act 1975;

• “the relevant date”, in relation to a local authority, means the date on which Parts 1 and 3 of this Schedule first had effect in relation to the authority's area.

(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the area of the Common Council of the City of London includes the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.

(3) Expressions used in this Part of this Schedule and in the Local Land Charges Act 1975 have the same meaning as in that Act.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 5 para. 44 in force at 12.4.2015, see s. 57(5)(e)