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The registry contains 87% of land in England and Wales as of 2019. [5] HM Land Registry is internally independent and receives no government funding; it charges fees for applications lodged by customers. The current Chief Land Registrar (and CEO) is Simon Hayes. [6] The equivalent office in Scotland is the Registers of Scotland.
The Land Registry has been dealing with the registration of all transactions (purchase, sale, mortgage, remortgage and other burdens) concerning registered land since 1892, and issued land certificates which are a state guarantee of the registered owner's good title up to 1 January 2007. Land Certificates have been abolished by virtue of ...
the application is for a disposition or a notice of title to an unregistered plot [i.e. a first registration, for land which has not been previously registered in the Land Register, such as land still recorded in the Register of Sasines], the conditions of Section 23 of the 2012 Act must be met.
The Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which repealed and replaced previous legislation governing land registration, in particular the Land Registration Act 1925, which governed an earlier, though similar, system.
The area of land in England and Wales is 151,174 km 2 (58,368 mi 2), while the United Kingdom is 243,610 km 2.By 2013, 82 per cent was formally registered at HM Land Registry. [1]
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Registered land in English law accounts for around 88 per cent of the total land mass. Since 1925, English land law has required that proprietary interests in land be registered, except in cases where it is necessary to protect social or family interests that cannot reasonably be expected to be registered.
Under the Land Registration Act 2002 sections 23 and 27, a notice of a mortgage must be filed with HM Land Registry for the mortgage to be effective. Then, Law of Property Act 1925 , section 87 says mortgages confer upon the mortgagee (i.e. the secured lender) the same rights as a 3000-year lease holder.