Section 71: Discharge of mortgages of property in England and Wales

Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 · 2014 c. 14View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 6: Banking and lending by societies

This section applies where—

there is a mortgage or other assurance ("the charge") of any property in England or Wales to a registered society,
a receipt in full for all moneys secured on the property by the charge is endorsed on, or annexed to, the charge,
the receipt is in a form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 or is in any other form specified in the society's rules (or in a schedule to those rules), and
the receipt is signed by 2 members of the society's committee and countersigned by its secretary (or, if the society is in liquidation, is signed by the liquidator or liquidators for the time being, described as such).

For the purposes of the provisions of section 115 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (reconveyances of mortgages by endorsed receipts) specified below, the receipt is treated as meeting the requirements of subsection (1) of that section—

subsection (1) so far as it relates to the operation of a receipt of a kind mentioned in that subsection;
if the receipt states the name of the person who pays the money, subsection (2);
subsections (3), (6), (8), (10) and (11);
where consistent with the terms of the form used for the receipt, subsection (7).

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