The Registration (Land and Deeds) (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1992 No. 393 (C. 17)

LAND REGISTRATION

REGISTRATION OF DEEDS

The Registration (Land and Deeds) (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992

Made

9th September 1992

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) of the Registration (Land and Deeds) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1) and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf. hereby makes the following order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registration (Land and Deeds) (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the Order” means the Registration (Land and Deeds) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and any reference to a numbered Article or Schedule is to the Article of or, as the case may be, the Schedule to, the Order bearing that number.

Appointed day

3.  The provisions of the Order specified in the Schedule shall come into operation on 1st October 1992.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

J. MacQuarrie

Assistant Secretary

9th September 1992.

SCHEDULE

Provisions of the Order	Subject mutter
Article 1	Title and commencement
Article 2	Interpretation
Article 3	Abolition of local offices
Article 4	Officials and seals
Article 5	Indemnity of Land Registry officials
Article 6	Amalgamation of registers
Article 7	Application for registration with qualified title
Article 8	Exemption, etc., of estates and land from Schedule 5 burdens
Article 9	Extension of period within which certain matters must be registered
Article 10	First registration of certain leasehold estates
Article 11	Extension of compulsory registration
Article 12	Reclassification of title
Article 14	Functions of Registrar on examination of title
Article 15	Forms
Article 16	Abolition of requirement that documents. etc., accompany certain applications for registration
Article 17	Amendment of supplemental provisions relating to defeasance of estates
Article 18	Assent or transfer by personal representatives
Article 19	Schedule 6 burdens
Article 20	Priority of registered burdens
Article 21	Charges on registered land
Article 22	Priority of registered charge for future advances
Article 23	Deposit of certificate as security
Article 24	Souvenir land
Article 25	Liens
Article 26	Incumbrances created, etc., by bodies corporate
Article 28	Description of registered land
Article 33,(1) to (5)	Inspection, etc., of documents
Article 34	Fees
Article 35	Scope of Land Registry Rules
Article 36	Documents and records
Article 37	Maintenance of, and searches in. the Statutory Charges Register
Article 39, (2), (4) and (5)	Registration of deeds and conveyances
Article 40	Witnesses
Article 42	Certified copies of memorials, etc., to be received in evidence
Article 43	The registry of deeds
Article 44	Indemnity of registry of deeds' officials
Article 46	Records, etc.
Article 48	Fees
Article 49	Regulations
Article 50	The Crown
Article 51 and Schedule I except for sub-paragraphs (6) and (10) of paragraph 4 of that Schedule	Minor and consequential amendments
Article 52 in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 2 specified below	Repeals
In Schedule 2 the repeals affecting the following provisions of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(3):— Section 1(2) Section 1(5) Section 14(6) Section 18(1) Section 19(7) Section 23(1) Section 28(c) Section 29(1) Section 32(2)(b) Section 34(7) Section 40 Section 50(a) Section 52 Section 94 Schedule 3 Schedule 5 Schedule 6 Schedule 7 Schedule 8	Repeals
In Schedule 2 the repeals affecting the following provisions of the Registration of Deeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(4):— Section 1(3) Section 2(1), (2) and (3A) Section 7(1) Section 11(1) Section 14 Section 16(2)	Repeals
In Schedule 2, the affecting:— The Finance Act 1973(5) The Inheritance Tax Act 1984(6) The Family Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1984(7) The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(8)	Repeals

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on 1 st October 1992 the provisions of the Registration (Land and Deeds) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 except for the following provisions of that Order:—

(a) Article 13 (which relates to extinguishment of leasehold estates);

(b) Article 27 (which relates to minors and persons suffering from mental disorder);

(c) Articles 29 to 32 inclusive (which relate to errors. rectification and compensation);

(d) Article 33(6) (which relates to priority searches);

(e) Article 38 (which relates to the application of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 to statutory charges);

(f) Article 39(1) and (3) (which relate to memorials of deeds);

(g) Article 41 (which relates to the vacation of pending actions registered in the Registry of Deeds);

(h) Article 45 (which relates to lodgement of documents in the Registry of Deeds by post);

(i) Article 47 (which relates to searches in the Registry of Deeds); and

(j) certain minor and consequential amendments and repeals.

(1)

S.I. 1992/811 (N.I. 7)

(2)

1974 c. 28

(3)

1970 c. 18 (N.I.)

(4)

1970 c . 25 (N.I.)

(5)

1975 c. 7

(6)

1984 c . 51

(7)

S.I. 1984/1384 (N.I. 14)

(8)

S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)