The Registration (Land and Deeds) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992

Amalgamation of registers

6.—(1) Separate registers of freeholders, of leaseholders and of subsidiary interests shall cease to be maintained under section 10 of the 1970 Act.

(2) The registers maintained under that section which are in existence immediately before the commencement of this Article shall be treated as a single register to be known as “the title register”.

(3) The following section shall be substituted for section 10 of the 1970 Act:

“The title register.

10.— (1) There shall be maintained by or on behalf of the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of Land Registry Rules a register (in this Act referred to as “the title register”) of title to—

(a) freehold estates in land;

(b) leasehold estates in land;

(c) land comprising incorporeal rights held in gross; and

(d) such other rights in land as may be prescribed.

(2) The references to estates in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) exclude rights such as are mentioned in paragraph (c); and “leasehold estates” in paragraph (b) excludes a leasehold estate granted for a term of 21 years or less.”.