Land Registration Act 1925

PART IPreliminary.

1Registers to be continued.

2What estates may be registered.

3Interpretation.

PART IIRegistration of Land.

4Application for registration of freehold land.

5Effect of first registration with absolute title.

6Effect of first registration with possessory title.

7Qualified title.

Leasehold Land.

8Application for registration of leasehold land.

9Effect of first registration with absolute title.

10Effect of first registration with good leasehold title.

11Effect of first registration with possessory title.

12Qualified title.

Preliminaries to Registration.

13Regulations as to examination of title by registrar.

14Evidence required before registration.

15Production of deeds.

16Deeds to be marked with notice of registration.

17Costs of application for registration.

PART IIIRegistered Dealings with Registered Land.

Dispositions of Freehold Land.

18Powers of disposition of registered freeholds.

19Registration of disposition of freeholds.

20Effect of registration of dispositions of freeholds.

Dispositions of Leasehold Land.

21Powers of disposition of registered leaseholds.

22Registration of dispositions of leaseholds.

23Effect of registration of dispositions of leaseholds.

24Implied covenants on transfers of leaseholds.

Charges on Freehold and Leasehold Land.

25Proprietor's power to create charges.

26Registration of charges.

27Terms of years implied in or granted by charges.

28Implied covenants in charges.

29Priorities of registered charges.

30Protection of charges for securing further advances.

31Alteration of charges.

32Provisions when charge registered in names of several proprietors.

33Transfer of charges.

34Powers of proprietor of charge.

35Discharge of charges.

36Rules as to subcharges.

As to Dealings generally.

37Powers of persons entitled to be registered.

38Certain provisions of the Law of Property Act to apply.

39Deeds off register, how far to be void.

40Creation and discharge of restrictive covenants.

Transmissions of Land and Charges on Death and Bankruptcy.

41Transmissions of land and charges on death of proprietor.

42Transmissions on bankruptcy of proprietor.

43Effect of transmissions.

44Vesting of term or subterm on transmission of charge.

45Proof of transmission of registered proprietorship.

Subsidiary Provisions.

46Determination or variation of leases, incumbrances, &c.

47Vesting instruments and dispositions in name of proprietor.

PART IVNotices, Cautions, Inhibitions and Restrictions.

48Registration of notice of lease.

49Rules to provide for notices of other rights, interests and claims.

50Notices of restrictive covenants.

51Notice of manorial incidents.

52Effect of notices.

53Cautions against first registration.

54Cautions against dealings.

55Effect of cautions against dealings.

56General provisions as to cautions.

57Power for court or registrar to inhibit registered dealings.

58Power to place restrictions on register.

Protection of various Interests.

59Writs, orders, deeds of arrangement, pending actions, &c.

60Notice of incumbrances registered under the Companies Act.

61Protection of creditors prior to registration of trustee in bankruptcy.

62Rules to be made as to certain details.

PART VLand and Charge Certificates.

63Issue of land and charge certificates.

64Certificates to be produced and noted on dealings.

65Deposit at registry of certificate of mortgaged land.

66Creation of hens by deposit of certificates.

67Issue of new certificates.

68Certificates to be evidence.

PART VIGeneral Provisions as to Registration and the Effect thereof.

69Effect of registration on the legal estate.

70Liability of registered land to overriding interests.

71Dispositions by virtue of overriding interests.

72Appurtenances.

73Provisions as to death duties.

74Notice of trust not to affect registered dealing.

75Acquisition of title by possession.

76Description of registered land.

77Conversion of possessory into absolute or good leasehold title.

78Provisions as to undivided shares in land.

79Addresses for service and notices.

80Bona vacantia and forfeiture.

81Power to remove land from the register.

PART VIIRectification of Register and Indemnity.

82Rectification of the register.

83Right to indemnity in certain cases.

84Application of indemnity in case of settled land.

85Insurance fund for providing indemnity.

PART VIIIApplication to particular Classes of Land.

86Registration of settled land.

87Changes of ownership of settled land.

88Settlement may be filed in registry.

89Registrar's certificate authorising proposed dealing with settled land.

90Charges for money actually raised.

92Rights of tenants for life and statutory owners to be registered as proprietors.

93As to persons in a fiduciary position.

94Land held on trust for sale.

95Restriction on number of trustees.

96Crown and Duchy land.

98Land subject to charitable trusts.

99Land belonging to benefices.

100Small holdings.

PART IXUnregistered Dealings with Registered Land.

Powers of dealing with Registered Land off the Register.

101Dispositions off register creating " minor interests. ".

102Priorities as between minor interests.

103Obligation to give effect on the register to certain minor interests.

104Protection of leases granted under statutory powers by persons other than registered proprietor; and restriction on power.

105As to minor interests in mortgage debts.

106Mortgages protected on the register.

107Power for proprietors to bind successors and to enforce contracts.

108Acquisition of easements and other benefits.

109Restriction on exercise of powers off the register.

PART XMiscellaneous Provisions.

110Provisions as between vendor and purchaser.

111Infants, defectives and lunatics.

112Inspection of register and other documents at land registry.

113Office copies to be evidence.

114Fraudulent dispositions, how far to be void.

115Penalty for suppression of deeds and evidence.

116Penalty for certain fraudulent acts.

117Punishment of misdemeanors.

118Penalty for unqualified persons drawing instruments.

119Civil remedies and discovery.

PART XICompulsory Registration.

120Power to make orders rendering registration compulsory in certain areas.

121Provisions as to orders made at the instance of a county council.

122Provisions as to orders made otherwise than at the instance of a county council.

123Effect of Act in areas where registration is compulsory.

124Compulsory provisions bind the Crown.

125Special provisions as to orders affecting Ridings of Yorkshire.

PART XIIAdministrative and Judicial Provisions.

His Majesty's Land Registry.

126His Majesty's Land Registry.

127Conduct of business by registrar.

128Power for registrar to summon witnesses.

129Interchange of information between land registry and other departments.

130Statutory acknowledgments on return of documents.

131Indemnity to officers of registry.

District Registries.

132Power to form district registries by general orders.

133Powers of district registrar, and appeals from him.

134Application of general orders, &c. to districts.

Local Registries of Deeds.

135Exemption of land registered under Act from registry of deeds.

136Power to transfer Yorkshire registries to land registry.

Provisions as to the Land Registry Act, 1862.

137Provisions as to the Land Registry Act, 1862.

Description and Powers of the Court.

138Jurisdiction of High Court and county courts.

139Powers of court in action for specific performance.

140Power of Registrar to state case for the court.

141Intervention of court in case of persons under disability.

142Power for court to bind interests of persons under disability.

PART XIIIRules, Fee Orders, Regulations, Short Title, Commencement and Extent.

144Power to make general rules.

145Power to make fee orders and principles on which fees determined.

146Orders as to remuneration of solicitors.

147Repeals, savings and construction.

148Short title, commencement and extent.

SCHEDULEEnactments repealed.

Land Registration Act 1925

1925 Chapter 21

An Act to consolidate the Land Transfer Acts and the statute law relating to registered land.

[9th April 1925]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—