§ Mr. REMNANTasked the Attorney-General whether, having regard to the fact that the system of compulsory registration of title under the Land Transfer
Act, 1897, has now been tried in the county of London as an experiment for over twelve years, at an annual cost of about £50,000, and to the fact that the Land Transfer Commission reported this year that the system was imperfect, and that the effect of the system in London has been to place a purchaser there at a disadvantage as compared with a purchaser elsewhere, the Privy Council will act on the authority given them by the Act of 1897 and rescind the order applying compulsion to the county of London, thus leaving London property owners the same freedom that owners of property outside of London possess, to register or not, as they deem best in their own interests?
§ Sir RUFUS ISAACSThe Lord Chancellor would not advise the Privy Council to make such an order, nor does the Royal Commission to which the hon. Member refers recommend the making of such an Order.