Chief Land Registrar's Report
Land Charges And Agricultural Credits Departments
Land Charges operates under the authority of the Land Charges Act 1972. The
Department maintains registers of land charges, pending actions, writs and
orders affecting land and other encumbrances registered against the names of
owners of property which is not registered under the Land Registration Acts.
Agricultural Credits is responsible for maintaining a register of short-term
loans by banks under Part II of the Agricultural Credits Act 1928. These charges
are secured on farming stock and other agricultural assets of the farmer.
The combined total of applications processed by the Land Charges and
Agricultural Credits departments was 5,322,493 (up 13.8%). This was due in the
main to a significant increase in insolvency search applications.
53.8% of search and office copy applications were made by telephone, direct
access or fax (up 48%). And telephone searches, conducted as a proportion of
total search applications received, increased to 43.5% (up 40%).
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