PART VIIMiscellaneous

Land Registration

66Computerisation of the title register

1

The following section shall be substituted for section 1 of the [1925 c. 21.] Land Registration Act 1925—

1Registers to be continued.

1

The Chief Land Registrar shall continue to keep a register of title to freehold land and leasehold land.

2

The register need not be kept in documentary form.

2

The following section shall be inserted after section 113 of that Act—

113AInspection etc.— supplementary.

1

Any duty under this Act to make a thing available for inspection is a duty to make it available for inspection in visible and legible form.

2

Any reference in this Act to copies of and extracts from the register and of and from documents and plans filed in the registry includes a reference to reproductions of things which are kept by the registrar under this Act otherwise than in documentary form.

67Jurisdiction

1

The Land Registration Act 1925 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 5 to this Act.

2

The [S.I. 1967/761.] Land Registration Rules 1967 are revoked.