Section 94 of Land Registration Act 2012: Partition

(1) Any of the tenants in common may, with the consent of all the tenants in common, make an application, in the prescribed form, to the Registrar for the partition of land occupied in common and subject to the provisions of this Act and of any other written law applying to or requiring consent to a sub-division of land and of any covenants or conditions in a certificate of a land, the Registrar shall effect the partition of the land in accordance with the agreement of the tenants in common.
(2) An application, may be made to the Registrar, in the prescribed form, for an order for the partition of land owned in common by—
(a) any one or more of the tenants in common without the consent of all the tenants in common; or
(b) any person in whose favour an order has been made for the sale of an undivided share in the land in execution of a decree.
(3) The Registrar may, after hearing the applicant and any of the other tenants in common who wish to appear and be heard, make an order for the partition of land having regard to—
(a) whether the provisions of this Act, any other written law regulating the subdivision of land and any covenants and conditions in a land have been or will be complied with if the partition is effected;
(b) the nature and location of the land;
(c) the number of tenants in common and the extent of their respective shares particularly, the extent of the share of any tenant in common by whom or on whose behalf the application has been made;
(d) the value of any contribution made by any tenant in common to the cost of improvements to or the maintenance of the land or buildings occupied in common;
(e) where the tenants in common are spouses or the tenants in common who do not agree on the partition are dependants of or related to the tenants in common, whether the interests of those tenants in common who have not agreed to the partition have been or will be adequately provided for as a consequence of or after the partition is effected, and particularly, a spouse or dependants of the tenant in common who is applying for t h e partition will not be rendered homeless by the partition;
(f) in respect of an application made by a person referred to in subsection (2)(b), whether the interests of the spouse or any dependants of the tenant in common whose share is to be sold in execution of a judgment or decree, will be adequately catered for and particularly, any spouse or dependants will not be rendered homeless by the sale;
(g) if the tenants in common are pastoralists, whether the tenants in common who have not agreed to the partition will, after the partition, still retain grazing rights, including grazing rights created by an easement in the partitioned land, to sufficient land of the quality and nature and in the location customarily used by those pastoralists;
(h) the proper development and use of the land and whether it may be adversely affected by the partition applied for;
(i) the hardship that would be caused to the applicant or applicants by the refusal to an order in comparison with the hardship that would be caused to any other person by making the order; and (j) any other matters that the Registrar considers relevant.
(4) The Registrar may make the order for partition subject to such limitations and conditions, including conditions relating to the payment of compensation to those tenants in common who have not agreed to the partition, by the tenants in common who have applied for the partition and how the expenses and costs of the partition are to be borne, as the Registrar may consider just and reasonable.