Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

14 Application for first registration of freehold estate. N.I.

(1) An application for first registration of the ownership of a freehold estate may be made by—

(a) the owner of an estate in fee simple in the land (including a personal representative, but excluding a mortgagee where there is a subsisting right of redemption); or

(b) a tenant for life, or a person who has under the Settled Land Acts the powers of a tenant for life; or

(c) any other person authorised in that behalf by any statutory provision;

whether or not such estate is subject to incumbrances.

(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be made for registration with—

(a) an absolute title; or

(b) a good fee farm grant title; or

(c) a possessory title[F1 ; or]

[F1 (d) a qualified title.]

(3) Where the applicant is a personal representative, any registration under this section shall be made—

(a) by registering in the[F1 title register], as owner of the estate, the person who is entitled thereto under the will or on the intestacy of the deceased owner; or

(b) by registering in the[F1 title register], as owner of the estate, a transferee for valuable consideration of the lands from such personal representative; or

(c) by entering on the[F1 title register] a note showing the nature of the estate of the deceased owner with particulars of the date of his death and of the grant of representation, including the names and addresses of the personal representatives.

(4) The entry of a note referred to in subsection (3)(c) shall operate as if it were the registration of the deceased owner of the estate and as if it were the entry of the note referred to in paragraph 3 of Schedule 4.

(5) A person shall not be registered under this section as an owner[F1 until his right to be so registered has been shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar].

(6) If, on an application for first registration as an owner of a freehold estate with one of the classes of title specified in subsection (2), the Registrar decides that the person to be registered as owner of the estate should be registered with a title of another of those classesF1 . . . , the Registrar may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, register that person accordingly.

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