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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