Section 5 Registration of access orders and of applications for such orders.I1

England and Wales

(1)

In section 6(1) of the M1Land 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—

“(d)
any access order under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992.”

F1(2)

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(3)

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(4)

In any case where—

(a)

an access order is discharged under section 6(1)(a) below, and

(b)

the order has been protected by an entry registered under the M2Land Charges Act 1972 or by a notice or caution under the M3Land Registration Act 1925,

the court may by order direct that the entry, notice or caution shall be cancelled.

(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 M4Land 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.

(6)

An application for an access order shall be regarded as a pending land action for the purposes of the M5Land Charges Act 1972 and the M6Land Registration Act 1925.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 5(2)(3) repealed (13.10.2003) by Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9), s. 136(2), Sch. 13 (with s. 129, Sch. 12 para. 1); S.I. 2003/1725, art. 2(1); S.I. 2003/1725, art. 2(1)

Marginal citations

M1: 1972 c. 61.
M2: 1972 c. 61.
M3: 1925 c. 21.
M4: 1925 c. 21.
M5: 1972 c. 61.
M6: 1925 c. 21.

Commencement

I1: S. 5 wholly in force at 31.1.1993 by s. 9(2) and S.I. 1992/3349, art. 2