Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 237

LAND REGISTRATION

Compulsory Registration of Title Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

6th June 2001

Coming into operation

7th September 2001

The Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 25(1) of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(1), and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Compulsory Registration of Title Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 7th September 2001.

(2) In this Order “local government district” means a local government district constituted by the Local Government (Boundaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992(3).

Compulsory registration area

2. It is hereby declared that the local government districts listed in the Schedule to the extent that they fall within the County of Armagh(4) shall be a compulsory registration area for the purposes of entry 2(5) in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 from 7th September 2001.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 6th June 2001.

L.S.

D. G. Ferguson

A senior officer of the

Department of Finance and Personnel

SCHEDULELocal Government District

Newry and Mourne
Armagh
Craigavon
Dungannon
Banbridge

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order declares County Armagh to be a compulsory registration area under the Land Registration (Northern Ireland) Act 1970 upon the commencement of this Order on 7th September 2001. The type of property transaction which triggers a compulsory registration within that area is defined by entry 2 of Schedule 2 to the aforesaid Act.

Three previous areas of compulsory registration were declared within County Down by the Compulsory Registration of Title Order (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 412), the Compulsory Regulation of Title Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 455) and the Compulsory Registration of Title Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 312).

(1)

1970 c. 18 (N.I.) as amended by S.I. 1992/811 (N.I. 7) Art. 11

(2)

The powers were transferred by the Department of Finance to the Department of the Environment by S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Art. 5(b) and Sch. 1 Part II and were transferred from the Department of the Environment to the Department of Finance and Personnel by S.R. 1999 No. 481 Art 6(b) and Sch. 4 Part II

(3)

S.R. 1992 No. 303

(4)

As constituted under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (1898 c. 37)

(5)

Entry 2 has been amended by S.I. 1992/811 (N.I. 7) Art. 51 and Sch. 1 paras 2(1) and 4(8)