Commentary on Sections Schedule 5 Part 4: Transitional Provision Paragraph 43
196.This clarifies the position with regard to payment of compensation under the statutory scheme contained in the LLCA 1975. In particular the CLR can recover compensation paid by him or her where his or her liability to pay was in consequence of a local authority’s failure to-
197.Compensation cannot however be recovered from a local authority which has failed to register, or register correctly, a local land charge in the register it formerly maintained, or to provide information about such a charge to the CLR, where that local authority is not the originating authority and the error was due to the equivalent failure of the actual originating authority. In that case the CLR can seek recovery of compensation paid from the originating authority instead.