14 Exclusion of matters affecting registered land or created by instruments necessitating registration of land.E+W
(1)This Act shall not apply to instruments or matters required to be registered or re-registered on or after 1st January 1926, if and so far as they affect registered land, and can be protected under the M1Land Registration Act 1925 by lodging or registering a creditor’s notice, restriction, caution, inhibition or other notice.
(2)Nothing in this Act imposes on the registrar any obligation to ascertain whether or not an instrument or matter affects registered land.
(3)Where an instrument executed on or after 27th July 1971 conveys, grants or assigns an estate in land and creates a land charge affecting that estate, this Act shall not apply to the land charge, so far as it affects that estate, if under [F1section 123A of the Land Registration Act 1925 (compulsory registration: effect of requirement to register)] the instrument will, unless the necessary application for registration under that Act is made within the time allowed by or under that section, become void so far as respects the conveyance, grant or assignment of that estate.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 14(3) substituted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 2, s. 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para.3; S.I. 1997/3036, art.2(b).
Marginal Citations