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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 45

References relating to land.

45.(1) In any enactment passed after the commencement of this Act the
expression

(a)"land" shall include

(i)messuages, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure;

(ii)land covered by water;

<(iii)any estate in land or water; and


<(iv)houses or other buildings or structures whatsoever;


(b)"registered land" shall mean land the title to which is registered under
[Part III of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970]; and

(c)"unregistered land" shall mean land the title to which is not registered
under [Part III of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970].

(2) In any enactment passed after the commencement of this Act "estate", when
used with reference to land, includes any legal or equitable estate or
interest, easement, right, title, claim, demand, charge, lien or encumbrance
in, over, to or in respect of the land.

(3) Where an enactment passed after the commencement of this Act provides that
a person may dispose of land, that person may deal with the land in any of the
following ways

(a)sell it;

(b)lease, let it or grant it in fee farm;

(c)exchange it, giving or receiving money for equality of exchange;

(d)if leasehold, surrender it;

(e)grant a licence to use it for any purpose or for such purposes as are
mentioned in the licence; or

(f)grant (by way of sale, lease, letting or licence) any easement, profit or
right in respect of it.

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