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LAND REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 19



19.(1) An application for first registration of the ownership of a
leasehold estate may be made by

(a)the owner of the leasehold estate (including a personal representative or a
person having under the Settled Land Acts the powers of a tenant for life, but
excluding a mortgagee where there is a subsisting right of redemption); or

(b)any other person authorised in that behalf by any statutory provision;

(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be made for registration with

(a)an absolute title; or

(b)a good leasehold title; or

(c)a possessory title.

(3) Where the applicant is a personal representative, any registration under
this section shall be made

(a)by registering in the appropriate register, as owner of the estate, the
person who is entitled thereto under the will or on the intestacy of the
deceased owner; or

(b)by registering in the appropriate register, as owner of the estate, a
transferee for valuable consideration of the lands from such personal
representative; or

(c)by entering on the appropriate register a note showing the nature of the
estate of the deceased owner with particulars of the date of his death and of
the grant of representation, including the names and addresses of the
personal representatives.

(4) The entry of a note referred to in subsection (3)(c) shall operate as if
it were the registration of the deceased owner of the estate and as if it were
the entry of the note referred to in paragraph 3 of Schedule 4.

(5) A person shall not be registered under this section with an absolute title
unless the title to both the leasehold estate and the freehold estate and to
any intermediate estate which may exist is approved by the Registrar.

(6) A person shall not be registered under this section with a title other
than an absolute title unless the title with which he is to be registered is
approved by the Registrar.

(7) If, on application for first registration as owner of a leasehold estate
with one of the classes of title specified in subsection (2), the Registrar
decides that the person to be registered as owner of the estate should be
registered with a title of another of those classes or with a qualified title,
he may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, register that person
accordingly.


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