Conservatore dei Registri Immobiliari
English translation: keeper of land registry
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| 4 | the Land Registry |
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the Land Registry Explanation: Land Registry (formerly known as Her Majesty's Land Registry) is a British Governmental organisation created in 1862. Land Registry is responsible for publicly recording legal interests in land in England and Wales and reports to the Department for Constitutional Affairs and to the Lord Chancellor's office. It is now an executive agency. The equivalent office in Scotland is the General Register Office for Scotland. Like land registration organisations worldwide, Land Registry guarantees title to registered estates and interests in land. Land Registry records the ownership rights freehold properties and leasehold properties where the lease has been granted for a term exceeding seven years. In 1857 the Royal Commission on Registration of Title proposed a system of registration based around a central registry in London with district offices. Following this, a system of land registration was first attempted in England and Wales under the Land Registry Act 1862. This system proved ineffective and, following further attempts in 1875 and 1897, the fundamentals of the present system were brought into force by the Land Registration Act 1925. As of 1999, virtually all transactions in land result in compulsory registration. A brief history of Her Majesty's Land Registry is described below. The Land Registration Act 2002 leaves the 1925 system substantially in place but enables the future compulsory introduction of electronic conveyancing using electronic signatures to transfer and register property. The Registry receives no government funding, being required to ensure that its income covers expenditure, and finances itself from registration and search fees. The Registry provides online access to its database of titles (ownership and charges or interests by other parties) and most plans (maps) [1]. The definition of land can include the buildings situated upon the land, particularly where parts of buildings at different levels (such as flats) are in different ownership. It is also possible to register the ownership of the mines and minerals which lie within the ground as well as airspace above property where this is in separate ownership. There are 24 Land Registry offices spread throughout England and Wales which are responsible for the registration of land transactions as well as the Head Office at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London and the Land Charges department in Plymouth. The 24 Offices, each responsible for a distinct geographic area, are at Birkenhead (Old Market), Birkenhead (Rosebrae), Coventry, Croydon, Durham (Boldon), Durham (Southfield), Gloucester, Harrow, Kingston Upon Hull, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire Office (also based at Lytham St Anne's), Nottingham East, Nottingham West, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Stevenage, Swansea, Telford, Tunbridge Wells, Wales (based in Swansea), Weymouth and York. Each local office has an Area Manager responsible for the day to day running of the office, a Land Registrar (being the senior lawyer at the office) and a Customer Service Manager. Each office also has a team of staff responsible for processing applications lodged by members of the legal profession and the general public. The organisation is headed by the Chief Land Registrar and Chief Executive. The current Chief Land Registrar and Chief Executive of Land Registry is Peter Collis who has headed the organisation since 1999. Mr Collis was educated at the University of Aston in Birmingham. He had worked in a number of policy and operational posts in the Departments of Industry, Prices and Consumer Protection, Trade and Transport. He was personal assistant to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the National Enterprise Board. In 1983, he was seconded to Balfour Beatty Engineering as a marketing executive before returning to the Department of Transport where he worked on aviation policy before becoming a Director of the DVLA and then of the Highways Agency. In 1997 he became Director for Business Development at the Department of Transport, before moving to become Director of Finance and Commercial Policy at the Employment Service. With the largest property database in Europe, today's Land Registry underpins the economy of the United Kingdom by guaranteeing ownership of many billions of pounds worth of property. Around £1 million worth of property is processed every minute in England and Wales. Since December 1990, the Land Register has been open to the public and for a fee anyone can inspect the register, find out the name and address of the current owner of any registered property or obtain a copy of any registered title. In 2004 Land Registry was awarded the government's prestigious Charter Mark for a record fifth time, only one of a handful of organisations to achieve this. Land Registry has an Independent Complaints Reviewer, Mrs Jodi Berg, who conducts impartial investigations of complaints from customers who are dissatisfied with the service they have received and have not been satisfied by Land Registry's internal complaints procedures. Recommendations for improvement may result which are accepted wherever possible. The Independent Complaints Reviewer's annual report is available from: New Premier House, 150 Southampton Row, London WC1B 5AL. Disputed applications to Land Registry are determined by the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, an independent office created by the Land Registration Act 2002. (Under previous Land Registration legislation, this function was the responsibility of the Chief Land Registrar). Land Registry has a recognised course on land registration law and its underpinning property law - Qualification in Land Registration Law and Practice. It also covers Land Registry legal and plans practice. There are two levels: a one year Certificate course at A level standard and a two-year Diploma course at degree standard. Land Registry is currently encouraging property owners whose property is currently not registered to make a voluntary application for registration. Although there are over 20,000,000 registered properties in England and Wales, only just over half of the land mass is registered. Much of this land is rural property in the hands of large landowners. Registration of land under the Land Registration Act 2003 affords property owners some protection against squatters as well as avoiding the need to produce old documents each time a property changes hands. [edit] A brief history of Her Majesty's Land Registry The Land Registration Act 1862 was brought onto the statute books by the then Lord Chancellor, Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury. The Act provided for the registration of Freehold estates in land. The system of registration adopted had it's origins in a system that had been piloted in South Australia by that colony's then prime minister Sir Robert Torrens. Brent Spencer Follett, the first Chief Land Registrar, opened the Land Registry's first offices at 34 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London on 15th October 1862. Mr Follett had a staff of just six people and was paid the enormous sum of £2,500 per annum. Flaws in the 1862 Act led to its downfall. Registration was not compulsory, and once property was registered there was no compulsion to register any subsequent transactions. Thus is was possible that the person registered as owner of the property was no longer the owner of that property. The prospect of compulsion to register brought much opposition from the legal profession. Following the Land Transfer Act 1875 there were seven further attempts to introduce land registration acts all of which failed. With the Land Registry seemingly on the brink of collapse, Sir Charles Brickdale was appointed to the Land Registry and brought improvements. His report of the system of land registration used in Germany proved influential. In 1897, the then Lord Chancellor Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury successfully brought the Land Transfer Act 1897 onto the statute books. This Act brought an element of compulsion into the registration system. To satisfy the demands of the legal profession, the option of a county veto was offered. Thankfully for the Land Registry, the London County Council were attracted to the idea of compulsory registration and voted to accept this in 1899. This led the Land Registry to expand. At this time the first female staff were employed and new technology, in the form of typewriters were introduced. At this time London was suffering from a severe outbreak of smallpox. The Land Registry was so keen that this outbreak should not affect its own staff and thus the ability to remain an effective government organisation that all the registry's staff were vaccinated. Despite the advance of compulsory registration there were still problems and a decision was made not to increase the areas liable to compulsory registration until after 1911. In 1913 a new Land Registry headquarters at Lincoln's Inn Fields was completed. 1925 saw two new pieces of land legislation. The Law of Property Act and The Land Registration Act. The government gave unregistered the chance to prove itself by barring government initiated extensions to compulsory registration for 10 years. This, however, did not stop Eastbourne and Hastings voluntarily becoming areas of compulsory registration. In 1925 the government foresaw that the whole of England and Wales would be subject to compulsory registration by 1955. But the process was to take much longer than that. In 1940 after the 193rd air raid on central London, the Land Registry was evacuated to the Marsham Court Hotel so that it could carry on its normal business and by 1950, 88 years after its creation, the Land Registry registered its one millionth title. Even this milestone did not affect the hurdles registration would face. In 1951 a public enquiry was held in Surrey over whether the area would be subject to compulsory registration. The growth in property ownership after the war years meant that the potential number of properties to be registered increased dramatically. This in turn slowed down the rate of land registration. To deal with the increasing workload, an office was opened in Tunbridge Wells in 1955 and a further office at Lytham St. Annes in 1957. In 1963, 101 years after the registry started, it registered its two millionth title. At this, Theodore Ruoff was appointed Chief Land Registrar. He is attributed for laying down the three fundamental principles of Land Registration; The mirror principle – proposing that the register of title reflects accurately and completely beyond all argument the facts that are material to the title The Curtain principle – the register is the sole and definitive source of information for proposing purchasers The Insurance principle –whereby if as a result of human error the title is proven to be defective in anyway then the person or persons suffering loss as a result must be able to claim compensation By this time land registration was a growing business and new offices were opened in Gloucester (1964), Stevenage (1964), Durham (1965) and Harrow (1965). Land Registers at this time were not public records and work processing was long and hard. Registers were typed and plans completed by hand using paintbrushes and ink. Copies of everything produced had to be made by hand. The Land Registry retained the originals made and the copies made were sewn, using needle and thread, into large certificates. The certificates were produced as indisputable evidence of the ownership of the land. Such was the importance of the certificates produced that tampering with them was a criminal offence. 1986 brought new technology to the Land Registry and the Plymouth Office was the first Land Registry Office to produce Land Registers electronically. Although the certificates still bore the same importance, computerisation dramatically increased the efficiency of the Land Register at a time when it was keen to bring the whole of England and Wales under compulsory registration. 1990 was a historic year for the Registry. The provision of compulsory registration was brought to the whole of England and Wales, its 10 millionth title was registered and for the first time, the Land Register was opened to public inspection. Although compulsory registration had now spread to the whole of its jurisdiction, compulsion only occurred when a property was sold. This was a serious bar to the registration of the whole of England and Wales and in 1998 new triggers for registration were introduced, dramatically increasing the rate of registration of land. These triggers included gifts of land, assent of land on death and raising monies by mortgages on the land. Although currently only just over half of the landmass of England and Wales is registered, Land Registry's aim is that all marketable property will be registered by 2012. Reference: http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/ |
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Registrar of Deeds Explanation: Yes, it is an official office where you would go to record deeds to property. I don't know if I'd want to call it the Land Registry, since it's probably an office in Italy, not the UK, but both definitions appear in Codeluppi. |
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3 hrs confidence:
keeper of land registry Explanation: ho interpretato "conservatore" nel senso di persona fisica,non ufficio... |
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