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Section 136: Short title, commencement and extent

Land Registration Act 2002 · 2002 c. 9View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 12: Miscellaneous and general

This Act may be cited as the Land Registration Act 2002.

This Act shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may by order appoint, and different days may be so appointed for different purposes.

Subject to subsection (4), this Act extends to England and Wales only.

Any amendment or repeal by this Act of an existing enactment, other than—

section 37 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945 (c. 43), and
Schedule 2A to the Building Societies Act 1986 (c. 53),

has the same extent as the enactment amended or repealed.

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