{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1970/18",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 4, where a person is registered or deemed to be registered (otherwise than by virtue of paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 13) with a possessory title to any estate in registered land and an application is made for registration of a transfer of that estate for valuable consideration, the Registrar may—\n(a) on the application of the registered owner or of the transferee;\n(b) if satisfied that twelve years have elapsed since the first registration of the estate and the registered owner was, immediately prior to the transfer, in possession of the estate; and\n(c) after giving such notices as may be prescribed;\nregister the transferee—\n(i)in the case of a freehold estate, with an absolute title or, if the circumstances of the case so require, with a good fee farm grant title; or\n(ii)in the case of a leasehold estate, with a good leasehold title.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1992 NI 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/18/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:35.461163+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}