Land Registration Act 2002 - Background

Background

The Land Registration Act 2002 was introduced in response to the Law Commission and HM Land Registry report, Land Registration for the Twenty-first Century (2001). The Act:

  • Simplified and modernised the law of land registration;
  • Made the register reflect a more accurate picture of a title to land, showing more fully the rights and subsidiary interests that affect it; and
  • Was intended to facilitate the introduction of e-conveyancing.

The Act made some major changes to the law regulating registered land. Specifically, it:

  • Enabled shorter leases to be registered;
  • Further encouraged voluntary land registration;
  • Changed the system of protection of third party rights; and
  • Reformed and modernised the law of adverse possession (squatters' rights).
  • Land Transfer Act 1875
  • Land Registration Act 1925

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