Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

79 Land certificates and certificates of charge. N.I.

(1) Land Registry Rules shall provide for the preparation and issue of certificates of title in relation to the ownership of registered land, and such certificates of title shall be called—

(a) where the title is title to land other than a charge, a land certificate;

(b) where the title is title to a charge, a certificate of charge.

(2) Land Registry Rules may provide generally for matters relating to land certificates and certificates of charge and, in particular, may—

(a) provide for the custody of such certificates;

(b) provide for the compulsory production to the Registrar of such certificates;

(c) specify the evidential value, in any court, of the contents of any such certificate;

(d) specify the circumstances in which dealings may, and those in which dealings shall not, be entered or noted on[F1 the register] without the production of such a certificate;

(e) provide for the endorsement or rectification of such certificates;

(f) specify the circumstances in which a new certificate may be issued in replacement of a certificate which has already been issued, and provide for the issue of such new certificates.

[F1 (g) provide for the cancellation and destruction of land certificates and certificates of charge which have been lodged in the Land Registry (whether or not new certificates are to be issued in their place).]

[F1 (3) A provision made under subsection (2)(b) shall have effect notwithstanding that a certificate to which the provision applies is subject to a lien.]

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