Section 12 Classes of owners who may be registered.

Subject to the provisions of section 60 regarding minors, a person may be registered in accordance with Land Registry Rules—

(a)

in the case of a freehold estate, as owner in fee simple (in this Act referred to as the “full owner” of that estate); or

F1[(b

in the case of a settled freehold estate,—

(i)

if he is a tenant in tail; or

(ii)

if he is a tenant for life; or

(iii)

if he has under the Settled Land Acts the powers of a tenant for life;

as the limited owner of that estate; or]

(c)

in the case of a leasehold estate, as the person in whom the leasehold estate is vested in possession (in this Act referred to as the “full owner” of that estate); or

(d)

in the case of a settled leasehold estate, if he is either a tenant for life or has under the Settled Land Acts the powers of a tenant for life, as the limited owner of that estate.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1978 NI 4

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Words in preamble of Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)