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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-and-consular-premises-act-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/46",
  "legislation_title": "Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diplomatic-and-consular-premises-act-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/22",
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  "number": "22",
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  "text": "(1) Where by virtue of paragraph 20 above land is discharged from a mortgage, the mortgagee shall be entitled, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph and to the claims of any prior mortgagee, to have the proceeds of sale applied in payment of the sums secured by the mortgage.\n(2) The Secretary of State may, by publishing such notice or notices as he thinks appropriate, require any person who claims to be entitled to a payment under sub-paragraph (1) above to send particulars of his claim to the Secretary of State within the time, not being less than two months, fixed in the notice or, where more than one notice is published, in the last of them.\n(3) At the end of the time fixed by the notice or, where more than one is published, the last of them, the Secretary of State shall not be liable to any person of whose claim he has not then received particulars.\n(4) If after executing a deed poll under section 2 above with respect to unregistered land, the Secretary of State lodges it at the registry of deeds, the registrar shall register it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/46/schedule/1/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:51:25.512507+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."
}