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LAND REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 53

Acquisition of title by possession.

53.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Statute of Limitations
(Northern Ireland) 1958 shall apply to registered land as it applies to
unregistered land.

(2) Where there has been a defeasance of an estate in any registered land in
consequence of any of the provisions of the said Statute and

(a)a person claims to have acquired a right by possession to be registered as
owner of an estate in that land; or

(b)the personal representatives of a deceased person claim that the deceased
or such representatives in right of the estate of the deceased had acquired
such a right;

(3) Without prejudice to section 6(2), the Registrar may, and shall if
requested to do so by the applicant or by any other person who has lodged an
objection to the application, refer the application for decision to the court.

(4) On any application under this section, where the Registrar or, as the case
may be, the court decides that a title has been acquired by the applicant or,
where the application is made by the personal representative of a deceased
person, by the deceased or by such representatives in right of the estate of
the deceased, the registration of that title shall be effected in such manner
as the Registrar may think proper but not so as to prejudice any estate of any
other person in the land to which the application relates, being an estate
which is not extinguished by the operation of the said Statute.

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