Registration of title act, 1964

• Enactment Date: 04 July 1964
• Act Number: 16

Number 16 of 1964.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACT, 1964
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
Preliminary and General
Section 1. Short title. 2. Commencement. 3. Interpretation. 4. Expenses. 5. Repeals. 6. Continuance of existing officers, offices, registers, instruments and documents.
PART II
Land Registry, Registers, Registering Authorities and Jurisdiction
7. The central and local offices. 8. Registers of ownership. 9. The Registrar of Titles. 10. Local registrars. 11. Relations of Registrar and local registrars. 12. Officers of central and local offices. 13. Exercise of powers of registering authorities. 14. Fees. 15. Official seals. 16. Powers of Registrar. 17. Proceedings by and against Registrar. 18. The court. 19. Appeal and reference to the court. 20. Enforcement by High Court of order of Registrar. 21. Registering authority to obey order of court. 22. Power of court in action for specific performance.
PART III
Registration of Ownership
23. Compulsory registration. 24. Extension of compulsory registration. 25. Effect of failure to register where registration compulsory. 26. Registration by Land Commission. 27. Classes of owners who may be registered. 28. Land certificate. 29. Rectification on amendment of vesting order. 30. Fraudulent dispositions and entries. 31. Conclusiveness of register. 32. Rectification of errors in registration. 33. Classes of title which may be registered. 34. Registration of burdens. 35. Registration subject to, or free from, equities. 36. Effect of previous registration with qualified or possessory title. 37. Effect of registration with absolute title. 38. Effect of registration with possessory title. 39. Effect of registration with qualified title. 40. Classes of title which may be registered. 41. Registration of burdens. 42. Previous registration with, and without, note as to lessor's title. 43. Effect of previous registration with qualified or possessory title. 44. Effect of registration with absolute title. 45. Effect of registration with good leasehold title. 46. Effect of registration with possessory title. 47. Effect of registration with qualified title. 48. Transfer of land from leasehold to freehold register. 49. Registration of title acquired by possession. 50. Conversion of registered title into absolute or good leasehold. 51. Transfer of registered land. 52. Effect of transfer of freehold land with absolute title. 53. Effect of transfer of freehold land with possessory title. 54. Effect of transfer of freehold land with qualified title. 55. Effect of transfer of leasehold interest with absolute title. 56. Effect of transfer of leasehold interest with good leasehold title. 57. Effect of transfer of leasehold interest with possessory title. 58. Effect of transfer of leasehold interest with qualified title. 59. Saving of consent to alienation, etc. 60. Defeasance of registered owner's estate. 61. Transmission of registered land from limited owner and on death. 62. Creation and effect of charge on registered land. 63. Saving for mortgages registered as charges. 64. Transfer of charge. 65. Discharge of registered charge. 66. Transmission, etc., of charge. 67. Restriction on custody of land certificate by registered owner of a charge. 68. Creation and effect of subordinate rights and interests. 69. Burdens which may be registered as affecting registered land. 70. Registration of ownership of burdens. 71. Registration of judgment mortgages. 72. Burdens which are without registration to affect registered land. 73. Mines, minerals, and mining rights. 74. Priority of registered burdens. 75. Priority of registered charge for future advances. 76. Power of charging to be exercised by registered charge. 77. Powers with respect to statutory charges. 78. Term of years vested in trustee for raising money out of registered land. 79. Term of years vested in trustee for raising money, or mortgage, prior to first registration. 80. Provisions as to incumbrances created or issued by company and not registered or protected. 81. Right of residence. 82. Note of rights appurtenant to land. 83. Register of ownership. 84. Ordnance Survey maps to be kept in central office. 85. Description of registered land. 86. Entry of boundaries in certain cases. 87. Entry of boundaries by agreement. 88. Settlement of boundaries on transfer. 89. Meaning of owner of unregistered land in regard to boundaries. 90. Powers of person entitled to be registered as owner of land or charge. 91. Undivided shares and co-owners. 92. Notice of trusts. 93. Discovery of instruments and facts affecting title. 94. Production of deeds. 95. Deeds to be marked with notice of registration. 96. Caution against first registration of land. 97. Caution against registered dealings. 98. Inhibition of registered dealings. 99. Provisions as to limited owners. 100. Power for trustee to apply to court for directions. 101. Infants. 102. Persons of unsound mind. 103. Provisions as to bankruptcy of registered owner. 104. Stamp duties. 105. Certificates. 106. Addresses and notices. 107. Searches of registers and maps. 108. Priority given by certificate of official search.
PART IV
Devolution on Death and Descent on Intestacy
109. Application of Part IV. 110. Devolution of registered land. 111. Succession to beneficial interest in registered land on intestacy. 112. Abolition of rules of descent in relation to registered freehold land. 113. Saving for deaths before commencement of this Act. 114. Meaning of “heirs”.
PART V
Miscellaneous Provisions
115. Avoidance of certain stipulations in contracts for sale or charge of registered land. 116. Exemption of land from registration in Registry of Deeds. 117. Exemption from registration elsewhere of burdens registered under this Act. 118. Indemnity of registering authority. 119. Penalties for fraud. 120. Compensation for error, forgery or fraud in relation to registration. 121. Inhibition in consequence of discovery of error. 122. Owner of land with possessory title not a trustee under Statute of Limitations, 1957. 123. Effect of words of transfer. 124. Power of Peace Commissioners to take affidavits. 125. Registration of land below high-water mark. 126. Power to make rules and orders. 127. Saving for bona vacantia.
SCHEDULE
REPEALS
Acts Referred to Registration of Title Act, 1891 1891, c. 66. Irish Bankrupt and Insolvent Act, 1857 1857, c. 60. Bankruptcy (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1872 1872, c. 58. Debtors Act (Ireland), 1872 1872, c. 57. Local Bankruptcy (Ireland) Act, 1888 1888, c. 44. Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847 1847, c. 32. Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1842 1842, c. 89. Drainage and Improvement of Land (Ireland) Act, 1863 1863, c. 88. State Property Act, 1954 1954, No. 25. Judgment Mortgage (Ireland) Act, 1850 1850, c. 29. Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847 1847, c. 32. Irish Church Act, 1869 1869, c. 42. Registration of Deeds Act, 1707 1707, c. 2. Judgments (Ireland) Act, 1844 1844, c. 90. Finance Act, 1924 1924, No. 27. Irish Church Act, 1869 1869, c. 42. The Public Offices Fees Act, 1879 1879, c. 58. Land Act, 1931 1931, No. 11. Administration of Estates Act, 1959 1959, No. 8. Registration of Title Act, 1942 1942. No. 26. Conveyancing Act, 1881 1881, c. 41. Conveyancing Act, 1911 1911, c. 37. Forestry Act, 1946 1946, No. 13. Judgment Mortgage (Ireland) Act, 1850 1850, c. 29. Judgment Mortgage (Ireland) Act, 1858 1858, c. 105. Land Act, 1927 1927, No. 19. Labourers Act, 1936 1936, No. 24. Companies Act, 1963 1963, No. 33. Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870 1870, c. 46. Settled Land Act, 1882 1882, c. 38. Settled Land Act, 1884 1884, c. 18. Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 1871, c. 22. Statute of Limitations, 1957 1957, No. 6. Foreshore Act, 1933 1933, No. 12. Courts of Justice Act, 1936 1936, No. 48. Record of Title (Ireland) Act, 1865 1865, s. 88. The Registry of Deeds Office (Ireland) Holidays Act, 1883 1883, c. 20.
Number 16 of 1964.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACT, 1964
AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE WITH AMENDMENTS THE LAW RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF THE TITLE TO LAND. [4th July, 1964.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—
PART I Preliminary and General
	Short title.	1.—This Act may be cited as the Registration of Title Act, 1964.
	Commencement.	2.—This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Minister for...