LAND REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

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LAND REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 85

Rules.

85.(1) There shall be established a rules committee (to be called the "Land
Registry Rules Committee") which shall, subject to the provisions of this
section, be responsible for advising and assisting the Minister in connection
with his functions under this section.

(2) The Land Registry Rules Committee shall consist of

(a)a Judge of the Supreme Court, nominated by the Lord Chief Justice, who
shall be Chairman of the Committee;

(b)a barrister nominated by the General Council of the Bar of Northern
Ireland;

(c)two solicitors nominated by the Incorporated Law Society of Northern
Ireland; and

(d)the Registrar.

(3) The Minister, with the advice and assistance of the Land Registry Rules
Committee, may make rules providing for the practice and procedure to be
followed in the Land Registry and generally for giving effect to this Act and,
in particular, may make rules with respect to all or any of the following
matters

(a)anything which under this Act may or is to be prescribed;

(b)the conduct of transfers and the publication of information relating to
transfers;

(c)the making, keeping and indexing of the registers;

(d)the authentication and preservation of documents relating to title and
generally for the custody of documents received in the Land Registry and for
providing copies of, or extracts from, such documents;

(e)the precautions to be taken, the notices to be given and the evidence to be
adduced in all proceedings in connection with registration, and the persons to
whom, and the circumstances under which, reference is to be made in respect of
the examination of any title to land proposed to be registered;

(f)the furnishing of addresses by persons whose names are entered on any
register;

(g)the registration of title on the exchange of holdings;

(h)the registration, by way of a note on the appropriate register, of any
easement or right created by a document which appears to affect adversely the
land, and so far as practicable by reference to the document creating the
same;

(i)consequential matters in relation to the creation and effect of any
additional burden prescribed by virtue of entry 16 in Part I of Schedule 6;

(j)the form in which, and conditions under which, entries in the registers are
to be made and may be modified or cancelled, the order in which entries
relating to the same land are to be made and the correction of clerical errors
in the registers or in any document connected with registration;

(k)the form and contents of documents required or authorised to be used or
given under or for the purposes of this Act;

<[(l)the costs to be charged by, or allowed to, solicitors or other persons in relation to this Act in respect of contentious business (within the meaning of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976), the persons by and to whom such costs are to be paid and the taxation of such costs by the taxing master of the Supreme Court or other taxing officer;


<(m)the award by the Registrar of costs in respect of any proceedings on a hearing before him, and the measurement of such costs by the Registrar, with the consent of all the parties concerned and having regard to the provisions of any order made by the Non-contentious Costs Committee under Article 64 of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, or the taxation of such costs by the taxing master of the Supreme Court or other taxing officer;


(n)requiring security for the costs of any appeal under this Act;

(o)adapting this Act to the registration of ownerships under the Small
Dwellings Acquisition Acts (Northern Ireland) 1899 to 1948, and providing for
the easy transfer of such ownerships;

(p)prescribing the particulars to be furnished on, and the mode of,
registration of any statutory charge.

(4) Rules made under subsection (3) shall be subject to negative resolution.

The Statutory Charges Register.

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LAND REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 85