{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-18.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": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Qualified title to freehold estate.",
  "text": "(1) If, on an application for first registration of any person as full or limited owner of a freehold estate. . . , it appears to the Registrar. . . that the title can be established only for a limited period, or only subject to certain qualifications, the Registrar may, by an entry made on the register, except from the effect of registration any estate—\n(a) arising before a specified date; or\n(b) arising under a specified document; or\n(c) otherwise particularly described in the register;\nand a title registered subject to any such exception shall be called a “qualified title” .\n(2) The first registration of a person as full or limited owner of a freehold estate with a qualified title shall have the same effect as first registration with an absolute title or, as the case may be, with a good fee farm grant title, save that first registration with a qualified title shall not prejudice or affect the enforcement of any estate appearing from the register to be excepted.",
  "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/section/18",
    "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."
}