Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

N.I. Appointment of Registrar of Titles

1 N.I. The Registrar shall be appointed by the Ministry after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice.

2 N.I. A person shall not be appointed to be Registrar unless he is either a barrister or solicitor and has practised as such for not less than ten years.

3 N.I. For the purposes of paragraph 2, service by a barrister or a solicitor in the[F1 Land Registry] or in some other legal appointment under the Crown shall be deemed to be practice as a barrister or solicitor, as the case may be.

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N.I. [F2 Other officials]

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4 F3 N.I. The Ministry may, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, appoint such number of persons, who are either barristers or solicitors, to be assistant registrars as it considers is necessary for the service of the[F4 Land Registry].

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5 F5 N.I. The Ministry may appoint such other officers and persons as, in the opinion of the Ministry, are necessary for the service of the[F6 Land Registry].

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N.I. [F7 Functions]

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6 N.I. Each assistant registrar appointed under paragraph 4 and each officer and other person appointed under paragraph 5 shall exercise, in accordance with this Act[F8 or any other statutory provision (including Land Registry Rules)], such of the functions of the Registrar as may be assigned to him by the Registrar, and shall be responsible to the Registrar for the exercise of the functions so assigned.

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F9 [7 N.I. An assistant registrar nominated by the Registrar may, in accordance with any general or specific directions given by the Registrar and notwithstanding any vacancy subsequently occurring in the office of Registrar, act as Registrar and exercise all or any of the functions of the Registrar.

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8 N.I. Where the Registrar is absent from the Land Registry or the office of Registrar is vacant and no person is acting as Registrar under paragraph 7 in accordance with a direction that he exercise all the functions of the Registrar, the senior assistant registrar present may act as Registrar and exercise all the functions of the Registrar.

9 N.I. All acts done by an assistant registrar under paragraph 7 or 8 shall, without proof of, respectively, the directions or circumstances, have the same effect in all respects as if they had been done by the Registrar.

N.I. The official seal

10 N.I. The Land Registry shall have an official seal.

11 (1) Judicial notice shall be taken by all courts of the official seal of the Land Registry, and any document purporting to be sealed with that seal shall be admissible in evidence; and if the document is a copy of another document or a copy in legible form of a record kept in non-legible form, the copy shall be admissible in like manner as the original document or record. N.I.

(2) In this paragraph “legible” and “record” have the same meaning as in section 85A.

(3) This paragraph also applies to the official seal of the central office or a local office (under this paragraph as originally enacted) which has been affixed to any document before the commencement of Article 3 of the Registration (Land and Deeds) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992.