PART II LAND REGISTRATION

The title register

6 Amalgamation of registers
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:

“10 The title register.
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.”

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