{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003/section-46E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003/section-46E.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/8",
  "legislation_title": "Building (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/46E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46E",
  "heading": "Registration",
  "text": "(1) The local authority must register a charging order in the appropriate land register.\n(2) A charging order may be registered in any period during which the order is of no effect by virtue of section 47(4).\n(3) On the registration of a charging order, the charge specified in the order is created in respect of the building specified in it.\n(4) A registered charging order is enforceable at the instance of the local authority against the owner of the charged building (but subject to section 46F).\n(5) The local authority must register a discharge of a charging order in the appropriate land register as soon as reasonably practicable after it has received—\n(a) payment in full of the repayable amount, or\n(b) a sum redeeming the repayable amount under section 46D(2).\n(6) On the registration of the discharge of a charging order, the charge specified in the order is discharged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 46A-46H and preceding cross-heading inserted (24.1.2015) by Buildings (Recovery of Expenses) (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 13), ss. 1(b), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/8/section/46E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:50.466433+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."
}