Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979

3 Effect of registration. S

(1) Registration shall have the effect of—

(a) vesting in the person registered as entitled to the registered interest in land a real right in and to the interest and in and to any right, pertinent or servitude, express or implied, forming part of the interest, subject only to the effect of any matter entered in the title sheet of that interest under section 6 of this Act so far as adverse to the interest or that person’s entitlement to it and to any overriding interest whether noted under that section or not;

(b) making any registered right or obligation relating to the registered interest in land a real right or obligation;

(c) affecting any registered real right or obligation relating to the registered interest in land,

insofar as the right or obligation is capable, under any enactment or rule of law, of being vested as a real right, of being made real or, as the case may be, of being affected as a real right.

In this subsection, “enactment” includes sections 17, 18 and 19 of this Act.

(2) Registration shall supersede the recording of a deed in the Register of Sasines but, subject to subsection (3) below, shall be without prejudice to any other means of creating or affecting real rights or obligations under any enactment or rule of law.

(3) A—

(a) lessee under a long lease;

(b) proprietor under udal tenure;

(c) kindly tenant,

shall obtain a real right in and to his interest as such only by registration; and registration shall be the only means of making rights or obligations relating to the registered interest in land of such a person real rights or obligations or of affecting such real rights or obligations.

(4) The date—

(a) at which a real right or obligation is created or as from which it is affected under this section;

(b) of entry of a feuar of a registrable interest in land with his superior,

shall be the date of registration.

(5) Where an interest in land has been registered, any obligation to assign title deeds and searches relating to that interest in land or to deliver them or make them forthcoming or any related obligation shall be of no effect in relation to that interest or to any other registered interest in land.

This subsection does not apply—

(a) to a land or charge certificate issued under section 5 of this Act;

(b) where the Keeper has, under section 12(2) of this Act, excluded indemnity under Part II of this Act.

(6) It shall not be necessary for an uninfeft proprietor of an interest in land which has been registered to expede a notice of title in order to complete his title to that interest if evidence of sufficient midcouples or links between the uninfeft proprietor and the person last infeft are produced to the Keeper on any registration in respect of that interest and, accordingly, section 4 of the M1 Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (completion of title by person uninfeft) shall be of no effect in relation to such an interest in land.

This subsection does not apply to the completion of title under section 74 or 76 of the M2 Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (procedure on compulsory purchase of lands).

(7) Nothing in this section affects any question as to the validity or effect of an overriding interest.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 3 partly in force; s. 3 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 30(2); s. 3(1)(2)(4)-(7) wholly in force at 6.4.1991 by S.I. 1980/1412; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 6.4.1981 by S.I. 1980/1412; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 4.10.1982 by S.I. 1982/520; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 3.1.1984 by S.I. 1983/745; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 30.9.1985 by S.I. 1985/501; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/851, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.1993 by S.I. 1992/2060, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.10.1993 by S.I. 1993/922, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.1995 by S.I. 1994/2588, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.1996 by S.I. 1995/2547, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.1997 by S.I. 1996/2490, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.1999 by S.I. 1998/1810, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.10.1999 by S.I. 1998/2980, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.2000 by S.I. 1999/111, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.2001 by S.S.I. 2000/338, art. 2; s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.2002 by S.S.I. 2001/309, art. 2; S. 3(3) in force for specified purposes in specified areas at 1.4.2003 by S.S.I. 2002/432, art. 2

Marginal Citations

M1 1924 c. 27.

M2 1845 c. 19.