Section 19 of Land Registration Act 2012: Fixed boundaries

(1) Every proprietor of land shall maintain in good order the fences, hedges, stones, pillars, beacons, walls and other features that demarcate the boundaries, pursuant to the requirements of any...

(1) Any person who defaces, removes, injures or otherwise impairs a boundary feature or any part of it unless authorized to do so by the Registrar commits an offence and is liable on conviction to...

(1) Subject to authentication of the cadastral map, if contiguous parcels are owned by the same proprietor and are subject in all respects to the same rights and obligations, the Registrar, on...

(1) Subject to section 15 and authentication of the cadastral map, on the application of the proprietors of contiguous parcels who are desirous of changing the layout of their parcels, and with the...

Subject to this Act— (a) the registration of a person as the proprietor of land shall vest in that person the absolute ownership of that land together with all rights and privileges belonging or...

(1) The rights of a proprietor, whether acquired on first registration or subsequently for valuable consideration or by an order of court, shall not be liable to be defeated except as provided in this...

(1) The certificate of title issued by the Registrar upon registration, or to a purchaser of land upon a transfer or transmission by the proprietor shall be taken by all courts as prima facie evidence...

1) A proprietor who has acquired land, a lease or a charge by transfer without valuable consideration shall hold it subject to— (a) any unregistered rights or interests subject to which the...

Unless the contrary is expressed in the register, all registered land shall be subject to the following overriding interests as may for the time being subsist and affect the same, without their being...

Every proprietor, at the time of acquiring any land, lease or charge, shall be deemed to have had notice of every entry in the register relating to the land, lease or charge and subsisting at the time...

(1) The Registrar may, if requested by a proprietor of land or a lease where no certificate of title or certificate of lease has been issued, issue to him or her a certificate of title or a...

(1) If a certificate of title or a certificate of lease has been issued, then, unless it is filed in the registry or the Registrar dispenses with its production, it shall be produced on the...

On the registration of any disposition of a lease or charge, the original and the duplicate of the lease or charge shall, unless the Registrar is satisfied that they cannot be produced, be produced to...

(1) Where a certificate of title or certificate of lease is lost or destroyed, the proprietor may apply to the Registrar for the issue of a duplicate certificate of title or certificate of lease, and...

A person who requires an official search in respect of any parcel, shall be entitled to receive particulars of the subsisting entries in the register, certified copies of any document, the cadastral...

(1) Every document purporting to be signed by a Registrar shall, in all proceedings, be presumed to have been so signed unless the contrary is proved. (2) Every copy of or extract from a document...

(1) A lease, charge or interest in land shall not be disposed of or dealt with except in accordance with this Act, and any attempt to dispose of any lease, charge or interest in land otherwise than in...

(1) A proprietor may transfer land, a lease or a charge to any person with or without consideration, by an instrument in the prescribed form or in such other form as the Registrar may in any...

(1) The Registrar shall not register any instrument purporting to transfer or to vest any land, a lease of land, situated within the area of a rating authority unless, a written statement, by the...

(1) The Registrar shall not register an instrument purporting to transfer or create an interest in land, unless a certificate is produced with the instrument, certifying that no rent is owing to the...

A transfer shall not be expressed to take effect on the happening of any event or on the fulfillment of any condition or at any future time.

(1) A condition or limitation is void if it purports to— (a) restrain absolutely a transferee or any other person from disposing of the interest transferred; or (b) determine the interest of the...

No part of the land comprised in a register shall be transferred unless the proprietor has first subdivided the land and duly registered each new subdivision.

(1) Every instrument effecting a disposition of land under this Act shall be in the form prescribed in relation to that disposition under this Act or any other written law. (2) No instrument...

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, every instrument effecting any disposition under this Act shall be executed by each of the parties consenting to it, in accordance with the provisions of...

(1) Subject to subsection (3), a person executing an instrument shall— (a) appear before the Registrar, public officer or other person as is prescribed; and (b) be accompanied by a credible witness...

An instrument required by law to be stamped shall not be accepted for registration unless it is stamped in accordance with the Stamp Duty Act, Cap. 480.

(1) The name of a person under the age of eighteen years may be entered in the register to enable the minor’s interest to be held in trust and shall be registered under the name of the guardian either...

(1) Except as provided in subsection (3), no instrument executed by any person as agent for any other person shall be accepted by the Registrar unless the person executing it was authorized in that...

A person with a legal incapacity who has been registered as a proprietor of land, a lease or a charge acquired by way of gift may, repudiate the gift within six months after the person ceases to be...

The court may order that any interest in private land acquired or received under or through certain prejudicial dispositions of those interests in private land made by a debtor, or the value of those...

(1) A disposition under this Act shall be deemed to prejudice a creditor if— (a) the person making the disposition is unable to pay all their debts without recourse to that private land or any...

(1) A creditor, public officer, national or county government or public entity charged with the responsibility for collection of money owing by any person to the national or county government or any...

(1) If a person acquires or receives land in respect of which the court could make an order for restoration or for the payment of reasonable compensation, the court shall not make that order against...

(1) Upon the registration of a lease containing an agreement, express or implied, by the lessee that the lessee shall not transfer, sublet, charge or part with possession of any of the leased land...

If a lease contains a condition, express or implied, by the lessee that the lessee shall not transfer, sub-let, charge or charge or part with the possession of the land leased or any part of it...

(1) A proprietor may by an instrument, in the prescribed form, charge any land or lease to secure the payment of an existing, future or a contingent debt, other money or money’s worth, or the...

(1) A proprietor whose land or lease is subject to a charge may create a second or subsequent charge in the same manner as the first charge and the same provisions shall apply, but any sale under the...

Nothing in this Part shall affect the provisions of any Act that provides for the registration of a notification or note in respect of any sum of money owing to a public body.

If a charge contains a condition, express or implied by the borrower that the borrower will not, without the consent of the lender, transfer, assign or lease the land or in the case of a lease,...

If any of the joint tenants of any land, lease or charge dies, the Registrar shall, upon proof of the death, delete the name of the deceased tenant from the register by registering the death...

(1) If a sole proprietor or a proprietor in common dies, the proprietor’s personal representative shall, on application to the Registrar in the prescribed form and on the production to the Registrar...

(1) Subject to any restriction on a person’s power of disposing of any land, lease or charge contained in an appointment, the personal representative or the person beneficially entitled on the death...

(1) Upon production to the Registrar of a certified copy of the order of court adjudging a proprietor bankrupt, or directing that the estate of a deceased proprietor be administered according to the...

(1) If a company is being wound up, the liquidator shall— (a) produce to the Registrar any resolution or order appointing the liquidator; and (b) satisfy the Registrar that the person has complied...

If a person has become entitled to any land, a lease or charge under any law or by virtue of any order or certificate of sale made or issued under any law, the Registrar shall, on the application of...

(1) A person acquiring land, a lease or a charge in a fiduciary capacity may be described in that capacity in the instrument of acquisition and be registered with the addition of the words “as...

Whenever two or more proprietors are registered jointly as trustees, and the survivor of such proprietors would not be entitled to exercise individually the powers that were vested in them, the...

(1) The court may make an order (hereinafter referred to as an inhibition) inhibiting for a particular time, or until the occurrence of a particular event, or generally until a further order, the...

So long as an inhibition remains registered, any instrument that is inconsistent with the inhibition shall not be registered.