HC Deb 16 November 1944 vol 404 cc2184-5

Lords Amendment to page 22, line 7, agreed to.

Lords Amendment: In line 43, at end, insert new Clause A (Registration of orders as local land charges). (1) As soon as may be after an order under Section one of this Act, or an order authorising a compulsory purchase of land under any enactment in this Part of this Act, becomes operative, it shall be registered in the prescribed manner in the register of local land charges by the proper officer of the council of each county borough or county district in which the land designated by the order or any part thereof is situated, or, if that land, or any part thereof, is situated in the City of London or any other part of the administrative County of London, by the proper officer of the Common Council of the City of London or of the London County Council, as the case may be. (2) It shall be the duty of the authority on whose application an order under Section one of this Act is made, and of the purchasing authority under an order authorising a compulsory purchase as aforesaid, as soon as may be after the order has become operative, to notify that fact to the proper officer of any other authority by whom it is required to be registered as aforesaid, and to furnish to him all information relating to the order requisite in that behalf. (3) The power conferred by Sub-section (6) of Section fifteen of the Land Charges Act, 2925, to make rules for giving effect to the provisions of that Section shall be exercisable for giving effect to the provisions of this Section, and in this Section the expression 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made in exercise of that power.

1.46 p.m.

Mr. H. Strauss

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This Amendment has been made in order that persons interested in land which may be subject to an Order under Clause 1, or subject to a compulsory Order under the Bill, may have the means of ascertaining readily whether it is so subject, and provides that such Orders shall be registered in the registers of local land charges.

Question put, and agreed to.