Clause 26 (Hansard, 3 February 1982)

§ Mr. Macfarlane
I beg to move amendment No. 59, in page 33, line 6, leave out `(3)` and insert `(1A)`.

Mr. Deputy Speaker
With this we shall take Government amendment No. 60.

§ Mr. Macfarlane
Amendment No. 59 simply corrects a minor drafting error.
Amendment No. 60 is designed to make it clear that the gloss on the phrase
office copy of an entry in any local Land charges register added by clause 26(e) to section 12 of the Local Land Charges Act 1975 also covers section 13 of the Act, where there is an almost identical phrase.
Clause 26(e) makes a consequential amendment to section 12 of the Local Land Charges Act. That section provides that an office copy of an entry in a register can be admitted in evidence. Clause 26(e) ensures that the term "office copy" is wide enough to cover extracts from computerised registers. However, section 13 of the 1975 Act also refers to office copies of entries in registers, this time in the context of giving protection to those acting in a fiduciary capacity—for example, solicitors, trustees and personal representatives—who place reliance on erroneous office copies. The same widening of the meaning of the term is plainly required here, too, and that is what the amendment achieves. It does so not by amending section 13 as well but by inserting an appropriate entry in the interpretation section of the 1975 Act.