b'Town and Country Planning (Fees for Non-Material Changes) (Wales) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/1761) in respect of Wales. With regard to land availability, Part X of the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 enables the Secretary of State to compile a register of land containing details of freehold or leasehold interests which are owned by certain public authorities (including most local authorities) which in his or her opinion are not being used, or sufficiently used, for the purposes of the bodys functions. The public are entitled to inspect the register and can require the local authority to supply copies of information contained on the register in return for the payment of such reasonable charge for making it as the council shall determine. Searches of the local land register held by district councils also bring in substantial fees for local authorities. Under the Local Land Charges Act 1975 as supplemented by section 13A. The applicable subordinate legislation is the Local Land Charges Rules 1977 (SI 1977/985), as amended.Government proposals to transfer local land charges registers away from district councils to the Land Registry, set out in the Queens Speech in June 2014, have caused discontent amongst local authorities. The changes to the Land Registration Act 2002 and the Local Land Charges Act 1975 are made by the Infrastructure Act 2015 which received Royal Assent on 12 February 2015 and are part of a wider plan for the modernisation of the land registration system in England and Wales. The plans are widely opposed amongst local authorities who have raised concerns about the ability of the Land Registry to cope with the additional burden of dealing with local land charges register and the costs to authorities associated with collating land charges information to pass on to the Land Registry. In addition to the above concerns, loss of income from land charges searches is undoubtedly a significant blow to councils and represents a limitation on the ability of local authority charging powers. The Lord Chancellor (with the concurrence of the Treasury) also has power to prescribe fees for the filing of documents, the making of any entries, the supply of copies of, or the variation or cancellation of, any entry and the making of any search of the register. Recently, regulations have also been introduced under section 150 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 to expressly provide for that which authorities up and down and the country have been doing for a number of years; namely, charging for replies to enquiries concerning the discharge of the authoritys functions in relation to land which is, or is proposed to be, the subject of a transaction between third parties or offered for sale by a third party or in connection with a transfer by the authority of any interest in land. The amount of the charge is at the authoritys discretion and in determining that amount the authority must have regard to its costs in dealing with enquiries (Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) (England) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/3248) in respect of England and the Local Authorities (Charges for Property Searches) (Wales) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/369) in respect of Wales). Following a recent ruling of the ECJ in the East Sussex County Council (Judgment) [2015] EUECJ C-71/14 which confirmed the earlier opinion given by the Advocate General, local authorities can charge for the overhead costs of staff time in undertaking the searches, supplying the information and photocopying or postal costs. 152'