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Her Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Framework Document 2008 )〕 It reports to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.〔(Land Registry joins Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ). HM Land Registry Press Release, 18 July 2011.〕 The equivalent office in Scotland is the Registers of Scotland. ==Purpose== Land Registry registers the ownership of property. It is one of the largest property databases in Europe. At the peak of the property boom in 2007, £1 million worth of property was processed every minute in England and Wales.〔Collis, Peter (April 2006) (Welcome to Land Registry’s 10-year strategic plan ). landregistry.gov.uk〕 Like land registration organisations in other countries, Land Registry guarantees title to registered estates and interests in land. It records the ownership rights of freehold properties, and leasehold properties where the lease has been granted for a term exceeding seven years. 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. Land Registry receives no government funding, being required to ensure that its income covers expenditure, and finances itself from registration and search fees. It provides online access to its database of ''titles'' (ownership and ''charges'' or interests by other parties) and most ''plans'' (maps). People need to pay a fee to access some information. Property owners whose property is not registered can make voluntary applications for registration. As of August 2012, there are over 23 million registered titles representing 80%〔(Press release – Registered Land Covers more than 80 per cent of England and Wales (Archived website) ). landregistry.gov.uk〕 of the land mass of England and Wales. Much of the remaining unregistered land is rural property in the hands of large institutional landowners such as the Church of England, educational institutions and the Crown. Registration of land under the Land Registration Act 2002 affords property owners some protection against squatters as well as avoiding the need to produce old documents each time a property changes hands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land Registry (United Kingdom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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