§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Attorney-General whether the provisions of the Land Registration (Scotland) Bill could usefully be employed in a similar Bill for the rest of the United Kingdom; and whether his Department submitted evidence to the Law Commission concerning a publicly accessible land register.
The Attorney-GeneralCentral registers of title to land, similar to the register730W for which Land Registration (Scotland) Bill provides, already exist in England and Wales under the Land Registration Act 1925 and in Northern Ireland under the Land Registration (Northern Ireland) Act 1970. The English Law Commission is taking note of the Scottish Bill in the context of its current review of land registration. On the question of a publicly-accessible land register, the Commission has not received evidence from my Department, but has obtained relevant factual information from the Land Registry, for which my noble Friend the Lord Chancellor is responsible.