Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

23Qualified title to leasehold estate.N.I.

(1)If, on an application for first registration of any person as full or limited owner of a leasehold estateF1. . . , it appears to the RegistrarF1. . . that the title, either of the lessor to the reversion or of the lessee to the leasehold estate, can be established only for a limited period, or only subject to certain qualifications, the Registrar may, by an entry made on the register, except from the effect of registration any estate—

(a)arising before a specified date; or

(b)arising under a specified document; or

(c)otherwise particularly described in the register;

and a title registered subject to any such exception shall be called a “qualified title” .

(2)The first registration of a person as full or limited owner of a leasehold estate with a qualified title shall have the same effect as first registration with an absolute title or, as the case may be, with a good leasehold title save that first registration with a qualified title shall not prejudice or affect the enforcement of any estate appearing from the register to be excepted.