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Land Registration Act 1936 (c.26)

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Land Registration Act 1936

1936 CHAPTER 26 26_Geo_5_and_1_Edw_8

An Act to amend the procedure under the Land Registration Act, 1925, for the making of orders declaring the registration of title to land to be compulsory on sale; to provide for the partial closing of, and otherwise amend the law with respect to, the Middlesex Deeds Registry; to amend subsection (4) of section seventy-five of the Land Registration Act, 1925; to amend the law with respect to the Insurance Fund established under the Land Transfer Act, 1897, and the fees payable under the Land Registration Act, 1925; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[14th July 1936]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act repealed (prosp.) by 2002 c. 9, ss. 135, 136(2), Sch. 13 (with ss. 129, 134 Sch. 12 para. 1)

C2Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

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Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 1 repealed by Land Registration Act 1966 (c. 39), Sch.

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Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 2–6, 8 repealed by Land Registration and Land Charges Act 1971 (c. 54), Sch. 2 Pts. I, II

7 Amendments as to fees

Subsection (4) of section one hundred and forty-five of the M1Land Registration Act, 1925, shall cease to have effect, and the fee orders made under that Act relating and incidental to registration of title shall be arranged from time to time so as to produce—

(a)amounts sufficient to discharge the salaries and other expenses incidental to the working of that Act (including such sums as, in the opinion of the Treasury, approximately represent the accruing liability attributable to the working of that Act in respect of pensions, allowances and gratuities [F1payable by virtue of schemes made under section 1 of the M2Superannuation Act 1972]

(b)such further amounts as are in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor and the Treasury reasonable, regard being had to any indemnities theretofore paid, and to the contingency that indemnities may thereafter become payable, under that Act.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 16

Marginal Citations

M11925 c. 21.

M21972 c. 11.

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Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 2–6, 8 repealed by Land Registration and Land Charges Act 1971 (c. 54), Sch. 2 Pts. I, II

9†Short title, construction, citation, and repeal

(1)This Act may be cited as the Land Registration Act, 1936, and shall be construed as one with the Land Registration Act, 1925, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Land Registration Acts, 1925 and 1936.

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Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 9(2), Sch. repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6 c. 6)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurat

SCHEDULE

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Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 9(2), Sch. repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6 c. 6)