{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-neighbouring-land-act-1992/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-neighbouring-land-act-1992/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/23",
  "legislation_title": "Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-neighbouring-land-act-1992",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Registration of access orders and of applications for such orders.",
  "text": "(1) In section 6(1) of the Land Charges Act 1972 (which specifies the writs and orders affecting land that may be entered in the register) after paragraph (c) there shall be added—\n“(d) any access order under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992.”\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In any case where—\n(a) an access order is discharged under section 6(1)(a) below, and\n(b) the order has been protected by an entry registered under the Land Charges Act 1972 or by a notice or caution under the Land Registration Act 1925,\nthe court may by order direct that the entry, notice or caution shall be cancelled.\n(5) The rights conferred on a person by or under an access order are not capable of constituting an overriding interest within the meaning of the Land Registration Act 1925, notwithstanding that he or any other person is in actual occupation of the whole or any part of the servient land in question.\n(6) An application for an access order shall be regarded as a pending land action for the purposes of the Land Charges Act 1972 and the Land Registration Act 1925.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(2)(3) repealed (13.10.2003) by Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9), s. 136(2), Sch. 13 (with s. 129, Sch. 12 para. 1); S.I. 2003/1725, art. 2(1); S.I. 2003/1725, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1925 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1925 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1972 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1925 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 wholly in force at 31.1.1993 by s. 9(2) and S.I. 1992/3349, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/23/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:57.910005+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}