Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

PART II N.I. POWER TO EXTEND TIME FOR FIRST COMPULSORY REGISTRATION

• Notwithstanding the period of three months referred to in column 2 in respect of[F1 entry 2, and the period of six months so referred to in respect of entries 4, 5 and 6], the Registrar may, on the application of any person interested in any particular case to which that period applies and in which the Registrar is satisfied that the application for registration—

  (a)

  cannot be made within that period, or can only be made within that period by incurring unreasonable expense; or

  (b)

  has not been made within that period by reason of some accident or other sufficient cause;

  [F2 order that the period be extended; and, if the Registrar so orders, then, upon the registration of the owner, or, as the case may be, of his successor in title, a note of that fact shall be recorded on the application.]

F1 1992 NI 7

F2 Words in Sch. 2 Pt. II substituted (3.10.2011) by Land Registration (Electronic Communications) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/158), arts. 1, 2(6)