Land Charges Act 1972

Land Charges Act 1972

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the registration of land charges and other instruments and matters affecting land.
Citation	1972 c. 61
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	9 August 1972
Commencement	29 January 1973
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Land Charges Act 1972 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Land Charges Act 1972 is a UK Act of Parliament that updates the system for registering charges on unregistered land in England and Wales. It repealed and updated parts of the Land Charges Act 1925 and other legislation affecting real property.

Background[]

In the early 20th century, a package of reforms were made to register land in England and Wales to make conveyancing cheaper and simpler, and free land to the market. The main legislation was the Land Registration Act 1925, the Law of Property Act 1925, the Trustee Act 1925, and the Settled Land Act 1925. However, much land was to remain unregistered. Instead, for that land not yet registered, people could choose to explicitly register interests under the Land Charges Act 1925, and so get better protection than the common law might provide against a bona fide purchaser without notice of any equitable interest sought to be protected. In 1972, this Act was updated into the present scheme.

Content[]

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See also[]

• English land law