Land Registration Act (Chapter 191)

• Coming into Force: 30 November 1981
• Published date: 30 November 1981
• Revision Date: 01 October 2021
• Year: 1981
• Type of Document: Current Version

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• Land Registration Act (Chapter 191)
• PART I.—PRELIMINARY.
• 1. Operation of other laws.
• 2. Interpretation.
• 3. Definition of land in certain instruments.
• PART II.—ADMINISTRATION.
• 4. Appointment of Registrar and Deputy Registrar.
• 5. Declaration of Office.
• 6. Seal.
• 7. Proof of documents.
• PART III.—REGISTRATION GENERALLY.
• 8. Preparation of certificates of title.
• 9. Register.
• 10. Registration of certificates of title.
• 11. Certificate of title to be evidence.
• 12. New certificates on registration of plan.
• 13. New certificate following transfer.
• 14. Non-contiguous Lands.
• 15. New certificate of title for different areas.
• 16. Tenants in common.
• 17. Status of unregistered instruments.
• 18. Instruments in approved form, etc.
• 19. Attestation of instruments.
• 20. Certificate required of correctness of instruments.
• 21. Instruments may be lodged in duplicate.
• 22. Instruments to be accompanied by title.
• 23. Registration of instruments.
• 24. Priority for registration.
• 25. Manner of effecting registration.
• 26. Effect of registration.
• 27. Effective date of registration.
• 28. Status of registered instrument.
• 29. Instruments of title to be returned.
• 30. Procedure for registration in certain cases.
• 31. Remainderman, etc., may be registered.
• 32. Description of certain persons as proprietor.
• 33. Protection of registered proprietor.
• 34. Joint proprietors.
• PART IIIA. — REGISTRATION OF CUSTOMARY LAND.
• 34A. Appointment of Director of Customary Land Registration.
• 34B. Powers and functions of the Director of Customary Land Registration.
• 34C. Duties, etc., of Deputy Director.
• 34D. Application for registration.
• 34E. Verification.
• 34F. Verification of Registration Plan.
• 34G. Publication of Registration Plan.
• 34H. Adjusted Registration Plan.
• 34I. Objections to Registration Plan.
• 34J. Final Registration Plan.
• 34K. Registration of Clan Land.
• 34L. Issue of certificate of title.
• 34M. Effect of registration.
• 34N. Custom.
• 34O. Land transactions.
• 34P. Controlling land transactions.
• 34Q. Unlawful occupation of clan land.
• PART IV.—STATE LEASES.
• 35. Register to be maintained.
• 36. Application of Act to State leases.
• 37. Alteration or variation.
• 38. Surrender of State lease.
• 39. Registrar to enter forfeiture.
• 40. Registration of State lease not executed by lessee.
• 41. Surrender of land subject to restoration order.
• PART V.—TRANSFER OF LAND.
• 42. Requirements for transfer.
• 43. Short form of right-of-way in transfer of freehold.
• 44. Transferor has no lien for unpaid purchase money.
• 45. Transferee not affected by notice.
• 46. Transferee of mortgaged land to indemnify transferor.
• 47. Purchase of land by mortgagee, etc.
• 48. Proprietor may transfer to himself, etc.
• PART VI.—LEASES.
• 49. Creation of lease.
• 50. Powers of lessor.
• 51. Covenants implied against lessee.
• 52. Short form covenants by lessee.
• 53. Short form of right-of-way in lease.
• 54. Lessee may sublet.
• 55. Transfer of lease.
• 56. Surrender of lease.
• 57. Disclaimer on insolvency.
• 58. Right to purchase freehold.
• 59. Lessors' rights preserved.
• 60. Re-entry by lessor.
• PART VII.—MORTGAGES AND CHARGES.
• 61. Interpretation of Part VII.
• 62. Creation of mortgage or charge.
• 63. Effect of mortgage or charge.
• 64. Covenants implied against mortgagor.
• 65. Short form of covenant by mortgagor.
• 66. Transfer of mortgage or charge.
• 67. Notice of default.
• 68. Sale of property by mortgagee, etc.
• 69. Protection of purchaser.
• 70. Principal becomes due on non-payment of interest, etc.
• 71. Estate of mortgagor, etc., passes to purchaser.
• 72. Payment by instalments.
• 73. Power to vary period before mortgagee sale.
• 74. Mortgagee may enter and take possession, etc.
• 75. Power of distraint.
• 76. Mortgagee, etc., in possession liable to lessor.
• 77. Discharge of mortgage or charge.
• 78. Satisfaction of annuity.
• 79. Payment of mortgage money where mortgagee absent.
• 80. Money lent on joint account.
• 81. Equitable mortgages.
• PART VIII.—CAVEATS.
• 82. Entitlement to lodge caveat.
• 83. Scope of caveat.
• 84. Requirements for caveat.
• 85. Commencement.
• 86. Restriction on dealings.
• 87. Notice to persons affected.
• 88. Court order relating to caveat.
• 89. Cancellation by Registrar.
• 90. Lodgement of caveat without reasonable cause.
• 91. Lapse of caveat.
• 92. Prohibition against further caveat.
• 93. Withdrawal of caveat.
• 94. Service of notices on caveator.
• PART IX.—EASEMENTS AND SIMILAR INTERESTS.
• 95. Registration of easements.
• 96. Certificate of title evidence as to easements.
• 97. Registration of other rights.
• 98. Registration of customary rights.
• PART X.—IMPLIED COVENANTS AND POWERS.
• 99. Implied covenants operate as if set out fully.
• 100. Covenants may be negatived or modified.
• 101. Parties bound severally.
• 102. Doing of acts, etc., to give effect to covenants.
• PART XI.—TRUSTS.
• 103. Interpretation of Part XI.
• 105. Instrument of nomination.
• 106. Terms of trusts may be declared by separate instrument.
• 107. Trustees may deal as beneficial owners.
• 108. Saving of jurisdiction.
• 109. No survivorship of trustees.
• 110. No survivorship to be shown on certificate.
• 111. Vesting order to be registered.
• 112. Order for sale to be registered.
• 113. Actions in trustee's name.
• PART XII.—TRANSMISSIONS.
• 114. Interpretation of Division 1.
• 115. Transmission on insolvency.
• 116. Annulment of insolvency adjudication.
• 117. Interpretation of Division 2.
• 118. Transmission of mortgage, etc.
• 119. Transmission of freehold and State leases.
• 120. Devise of mortgage, lease, etc.
• 121. Devise of freehold.
• 122. Registration of surviving joint tenant.
• 123. Determination of life estate.
• 124. Transmission where deceased not registered as proprietor.
• 125. Transmission to person entitled by custom.
• 126. Order for executor, etc., to transfer.
• 127. Registrar may dispense with death certificate in certain cases.
• PART XIII.—POWERS OF ATTORNEY.
• 128. Interpretation of Part XIII.
• 129. Attorney may deal in land, etc.
• 130. Instrument to be evidence.
• 131. Registrar may presume power unrevoked.
• 132. Directions to be observed.
• 133. Certain dealings protected.
• 134. Loss, etc., of power.
• 135. Revocation.
• 136. Offence.
• PART XIV.—FEES AND ASSURANCE FUND.
• 137. Fees and contributions.
• 138. Assurance Fund.
• 139. Application of Public Finances (Management) Act 1995.
• 140. Contributions payable to Assurance Fund.
• 141. Payments out of the Assurance Fund.
• 142. Fund not liable for breach of trust.
• 143. Proceeds of investment.
• 144. Recovery of money paid out of Assurance Fund.
• PART XV.—REMEDIES.
• 145. Registrar may be summoned to show cause.
• 146. Ejectment against registered proprietor.
• 147. Registrar to be co-defendant in certain cases.
• 148. Improvements.
• 149. Orders on recovery of land.
• 150. Damages for deprivation of land.
• 151. Damages for mistakes of Registrar, etc.
• 152. Damages to be limited in certain cases.
• PART XVI.—AMENDMENT OF DESCRIPTION OF LAND.
• 153. Amendment of certificate of title.
• 154. Adjustment of discrepancies in boundaries.
• PART XVII.—POWERS OF REGISTRAR AND DEPUTY REGISTRAR.
• 155. Registrar may refuse to receive certain instruments.
• 156. Production of instruments for registration of dealing, etc.
• 157. Survey plan required in certain cases.
• 158. Registrar may dispense with production.
• 159. Informal documents may be registered.
• 160. Production of instruments wrongly issued, etc.
• 161. Cancellation and correction of instruments and entries.
• 162. Replacement of instrument of title.
• 163. Caveats by Registrar.
• 164. Special case.
• 165. Powers and functions of Deputy Registrar.
• PART XVIII.—MISCELLANEOUS.
• 166. Custodian for Trust Land.
• 167. Appointment of Custodian.
• 168. Certain instruments need not refer to successors of the Custodian.
• 169. References to First Assistant Secretary, etc.
• 170. Partition.
• 171. Writs of execution.
• 172. Certificate of title conclusive evidence in action for specific performance.
• 173. Searches of Register and copies of instruments.
• 174. Certified copies to be furnished and to be evidence.
• 175. Execution of instruments by the State.
• 176. Execution of instruments by corporation.
• 177. Persons may be accounted dead in certain cases.
• 178. Consent, etc., may be endorsed.
• 179. Representation in cases of incapacity.
• 180. Witness expenses.
• 181. Protection of Registrar.
• 182. Regulations.
• 183. Repeal.
• PART XIX.—TRANSITIONAL.
• 184. Rights and liabilities to continue.
• 185. Former Register Books.
• 186. Register of Government Leases, etc.
• 187. Register of powers of attorney.
• 188. Instrument of encumbrance to continue as charge.
• 189. Registrar and Deputy Registrar to...