Local Land Charges Act 1975
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1975 c. 76 |
| Year | 1975 |
any charge acquired either before or after the commencement of this Act by a local authority F1or National Park authority, water authority F2sewerage undertaker or new town development corporation under the Public Health Acts 1936 and 1937, . . . ,the Public Health Act 1961 or F4the Highways Act 1980 (or any Act repealed by that Act) F5or the Building Act 1984,or any similar charge acquired by a local authority F1or National Park authority under any other Act, whether passed before or after this Act, being a charge that is binding on successive owners of the land affected;imposed by a local authority F1or National Park authority on or after 1st January 1926 (including any prohibition or restriction embodied in any condition attached to a consent, approval or licence granted by a local authority F1or National Park authority on or after that date) , orenforceable by a local authority F1or National Park authority under any covenant or agreement made with them on or after that date,imposed by a Minister of the Crown or government department on or after the date of the commencement of this Act (including any prohibition or restriction embodied in any condition attached to a consent, approval or licence granted by such a Minister or department on or after that date) , orenforceable by such a Minister or department under any covenant or agreement made with him or them on or after that date,any positive obligation affecting land enforceable by a Minister of the Crown, government department or local authority F1or National Park authority under any covenant or agreement made with him or them on or after the date of the commencement of this Act and binding on successive owners of the land affected;any charge or other matter which is expressly made a local land charge by any statutory provision not contained in this section.(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) (a) above, any sum which is recoverable from successive owners or occupiers of the land in respect of which the sum is recoverable shall be treated as a charge, whether the sum is expressed to be a charge on the land or not.(3) For the purposes of this section and section 2 of this Act, the Broads Authority shall be treated as a local authority or National Park authority.(a) a prohibition or restriction enforceable under a covenant or agreement made between a lessor and a lessee;(b) a positive obligation enforceable under a covenant or agreement made between a lessor and a lessee;(c) a prohibition or restriction enforceable by a Minister of the Crown, government department or local authority F7or National Park authority under any covenant or agreement, being a prohibition or restriction binding on successive owners of the land affected by reason of the fact that the covenant or agreement is made for the benefit of land of the Minister, government department or local authority F7or National Park authority;(d) a prohibition or restriction embodied in any bye-laws;(e) a condition or limitation subject to which planning permission was granted at any time before the commencement of this Act or was or is (at any time) deemed to be granted under any statutory provision relating to town and country planning, whether by a Minister of the Crown, government department or local authority F7or National Park authority;(f) a prohibition or restriction embodied in a scheme under the (g) a prohibition or restriction enforceable under a forestry dedication covenant entered into pursuant to section 5 of the England, Wales or England and Wales;England, or England and Wales, with the exception of, or of any part of, Greater London;Greater London.
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