Land Registry (Middlesex Deeds) Act 1891
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Land Registry (Middlesex Deeds) Act, 1891
(54 & 55 Vict.) CHAPTER 64.
An Act to transfer the Middlesex Registry of Deeds to the Land Registry, and provide for the conduct of the business thereof.
[5th August 1891]
Be it enacted it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Transfer of Middlesex Registry to Land Registry
1. The Middlesex Registry shall be transferred to the Land Registry established under the Land Transfer Act, 1875, and shall form part of that office and be conducted by the Registrar of that office accordingly, and all powers and indemnities subsisting and all penalties imposed for the purposes of the Land Transfer Act, 1875, shall be available for the purposes of the Middlesex Registry Act, 1708, and the Middlesex Registry Act, 1891.
2 Rules.
(1)2.—(1.) Subject to any rules made under this section, the regulations in the First Schedule to this Act shall be observed in the Middlesex Registry.
(2) (2.) The provisions as to making rules contained in sections one hundred and eleven and one hundred and twelve of the Land Transfer Act, 1875 (except so much of those provisions as requires regard to be had to the value of any land or charge in fixing fees), shall extend to the making of rules for the purposes of the Middlesex Registry Act, 1708 : Provided that the charges of solicitors which are regulated under the Solicitors Remuneration Act, 1881, shall not be altered by any rule made under this section.
(3) (3.) The Middlesex Registry Act, 1708, shall be construed as if the directions contained in any such rules and regulations were embodied in that Act.
3 Transfer of buildings, effects, and moneys of Middlesex Registry.
(1)3.—(1.) All land, registers, books, papers, and effects held or used at the commencement of this Act for the purposes of the Middlesex Registry shall as from that date vest in Her Majesty for the public service, for all the estate and interest for which the same are then held or used, subject to the liabilities affecting the same.
(2) (2.) All such land shall be under the management of the Commissioners of Works, and the Acts relating to the Commissioners of Works shall apply as if the land had been acquired by the Commissioners in pursuance of those Acts.
(3) (3.) All moneys received on account of the Middlesex Registry shall be payable into the Exchequer.
4 Existing officers of Middlesex Registry.
(1)4.—(1.) Such of the persons employed in and about the Middlesex Registry as the Lord Chancellor, with the consent of the Treasury, may declare by order to be necessary for the permanent organisation of the Registry, shall be transferred to the Land Registry, and shall perform such duties in relation to the business of the Land Registry as may be directed by the Lord Chancellor, and shall have the same relative rank, and shall receive out of moneys provided by Parliament at least the same remuneration, as if this Act had not passed, and shall be in the permanent Civil Service of the State, and for the purpose of superannuation or other allowances may reckon service before the commencement of this Act in the Middlesex Registry as service in the said permanent Civil Service.
(2) (2.) Every pension or compassionate allowance heretofore paid out of the surplus income of the Middlesex Registry shall continue, if and so far as the Treasury shall so determine, to be paid, and shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament; and there may be paid, out of moneys provided by Parliament, to any person who is permanently or otherwise employed in the Middlesex Registry and is not transferred as aforesaid, or whose employment is otherwise determined by the operation of this Act, such pension or gratuity as the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, may think fit.
5 Discharges of mortgages.
5. Except on the application of the mortgagee named in the mortgage, his executors or administrators, it shall not be necessary for the Registrar to note on the register the discharge of a mortgage in any other manner than by registering a memorial of the instrument of...
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