Registration of Deeds Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Registration, etc., of matrimonial charges

13.—(1) The documents to be lodged in the registry of deeds under Article 6(6) of the 1984 Order for or in connection with—

(a) the registration of a matrimonial charge to which Article 6(1)(b) of the 1984 Order applies;

(b) the renewal of such registration;

(c) the vacation, release or variation of such registration or the postponement of the priority of a matrimonial charge so registered,

shall be in Forms 6, 7 and 8, respectively.

(2) Each document so lodged shall be accompanied by a copy certified as a true copy by the person lodging the document for registration or causing it to be so lodged, and such document shall, subject to regulation 4, be registered—

(a) by filing the copy in the registry of deeds in sequence according to the serial number allocated to the document under regulations 5 and 6; and

(b) by recording the document in an index kept in the registry of deeds for that purpose (“the Matrimonial Charges Index”).