Land Registration Rules, 2000

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 175/2000

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

1. (1) These Rules may be cited as the Land Registration Rules, 2000.

(2) These Rules and the Land Registration Rules 1972 to 1986 may be cited together as the Land Registration Rules 1972 to 2000.

(3) These Rules and the Land Registration Rules 1972 to 1986 shall be construed together as one.

(4) In these Rules, “the Rules of 1981”, means the Land Registration Rules, 1981.

2. These Rules shall come into operation on 1st day of August, 2000.

3. Subrules (2) and (3) of Rule 19 of the Land Registration Rules, 1972 (as amended by the Rules of 1981) are hereby amended by the substitution of “£250,000” for “£50,000” whenever “£50,000” occurs in those subrules.

4. Rule 19 of the Land Registration Rules, 1972 (as amended by the Rules of 1981) is hereby amended by the substitution of the following for subrule (4) of that Rule:

“(4) Where property is acquired by a statutory authority and the purchase money or compensation paid therefor does not exceed £250,000 the Registrar may dispense with the official examination of the title and may register the statutory authority with absolute title or good leasehold title on production of a certificate by the solicitor for such authority in Form 3 adapted as the case may require and provided that—

(a) the application is signed by the solicitor for the statutory authority, and

(b) the application is accompanied by a plan of the property drawn on the current largest scale map published by the Ordnance Survey”.

5. Subrule (1) of Rule 35 of the Land Registration Rules, 1972 (as amended by the Rules of 1981) is hereby amended by the substitution of “£250,000” for “£50,000” wherever “£50,000” occurs in that subrule.

6. Form 15 of the Schedule of Forms to the Land Registration Rules, 1972 (as amended by the Rules of 1981) is hereby amended by the substitution of “£250,000” for “£50,000” wherever “£50,000” occurs in that Form.

7. The Schedule of Forms to the Land Registration Rules, 1972 is hereby amended by the insertion as Form 3 in that Schedule of Forms, in lieu of the Form inserted by Rule 5 of the Rules of 1981, of the following Form:

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FORM 3

Application for first registration where purchase money or compensation does not exceed £250,000 (Rule 19(3) (4))

LAND REGISTRY

County Folio

1. I, _____________________________________ am the solicitor for (insert full name and correct description of the applicant) who is applicant for registration as owner.

2. I have investigated the title to the property described in the conveyance dated the _____________ day of __________________, (or, other instrument) lodged herewith. The property in or over which the estate or interest acquired by the conveyance (or, other instrument) exists is shown on the map endorsed thereon (or, is shown on the ordnance map lodged herewith and thereon edged ___________________________).

3. As the...