# Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, Section 18: Qualified title to freehold estate.


(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—
(a) arising before a specified date; or
(b) arising under a specified document; or
(c) otherwise particularly described in the register;
and a title registered subject to any such exception shall be called a “qualified title” .
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/18/section/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-18
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