{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-and-land-charges-act-1971/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-and-land-charges-act-1971/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/54",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration and Land Charges Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-and-land-charges-act-1971",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Short title, citation, construction, interpretation, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Land Registration and Land Charges Act 1971, and—\n(a) the Land Registration Acts 1925 to 1966 and Part I of this Act may be cited together as the Land Registration Acts 1925 to 1971; . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Part I of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Registration Act 1925, so however that, in section 144(1)(xxxi) of that Act and section 4(1)(f) of this Act, the references to that Act shall not be construed as extending to section 4 of this Act; . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .it is hereby declared that the provisions of this Act bind the Crown.\n(4) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.\n(5) The following provisions of this Act, namely sections . . . 4, 5(1), 6 to 14 (except section 14(2)(b)), this section, Schedule 1 and Part I of Schedule 2, shall come into force on the day this Act is passed, and the other provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be so appointed for different purposes.\n(6) Any reference in this Act to the commencement of any provision thereof shall be construed as a reference to the time at which under or by virtue of subsection (5) above that provision comes into force.\n(7) This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Land Charges Act 1972 (c. 61, SIF 98:2), s. 18, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(1)(b) repealed by Land Charges Act 1972 (c.61, SIF 98:2), s. 18, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(5) repealed (27.4.1997) by 1997 c. 2, ss. 4(2), 5(3), Sch. 2 Pt.II"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/54/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:46.457833+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."
}