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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/schedule-7/part-III/paragraph-1",
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  "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/7/part/III/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act or in any other statutory provision, a charge purporting to have been registered in the Land Registry at the 28th July 1957 shall, subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, not be void by reason only—\n(a) that it was expressed to have been created by way of mortgage; or\n(b) that the consent of the Ministry was not obtained to a demise or sub-demise expressed to have been created by any such mortgage;\nand the purported registration of the charge, as a charge on registered land, shall not be invalid for either of those reasons.\n(2) In this paragraph, “mortgage” includes both a mortgage by demise or sub-demise and a mortgage by conveyance or assignment with a proviso for redemption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/18/schedule/7/part/III/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}