The Land Charges Act 1972 is a piece of United Kingdom legislation that consolidated the Land Charges Act 1925, providing a statutory framework for the registration of certain interests and encumbrances affecting unregistered land in England and Wales. The Act established the Land Charges Register, maintained by Her Majesty's Land Registry, into which interests such as restrictive covenants, estate contracts, and equitable easements must be entered in order to bind a purchaser of the legal estate. A registered land charge binds all purchasers; an unregistered one is void against a purchaser of a legal estate for money or money's worth, regardless of whether that purchaser had actual notice of the interest — a principle confirmed in the case of Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green [1981] AC 513.