Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012

23 Conditions of registration: transfer of unregistered plot S

(1) The conditions are that—

(a) the application is made by the grantee of the disposition or as the case may be the person in whose favour is the notice of title,

(b) the deed is valid,

(c) the deed so describes the plot as to enable the Keeper to delineate its boundaries on the cadastral map,

(d) where within the plot there is a lesser area in respect of which a registrable encumbrance is constituted there is included in, or submitted with, the application a plan or description sufficient to enable the Keeper to delineate the boundaries of the lesser area on the cadastral map,

(e) there is included in the application a description of every public right of way (by whatever means) over or through the plot in so far as known to the applicant.

(2) Subsection (1)(c) and (d) do not apply—

(a) if the plot to which the application relates is a flat in a flatted building, and

(b) either—

(i) the flatted building is, by virtue of section 16, represented as a single cadastral unit on the cadastral map, or

(ii) the Keeper has indicated that the flatted building is, by virtue of that section, to be so represented.

(3) Despite subsection (2), subsection (1)(c) and (d) apply in so far as the plot includes a pertinent outwith the flatted building, being a pertinent only of the plot.

(4) Subsection (1)(d) does not apply in relation to an encumbrance which consists of—

(a) a right to lead a pipe, cable, wire or other such enclosed unit over or under land,

(b) a servitude created other than by registration.

(5) In this section, “the deed” means the disposition or as the case may be the notice of title.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 23 in force at 8.12.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2