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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/9",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-2002",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Protection of disponees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to any entry in the register to the contrary, the proprietor of a registered charge is to be taken to have, in relation to the property subject to the charge, the powers of disposition conferred by law on the owner of a legal mortgage.\n(2) Subsection (1) has effect only for the purpose of preventing the title of a disponee being questioned (and so does not affect the lawfulness of a disposition).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/9/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:41.419234+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."
}