{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-29.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/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Affidavit required before registration.",
  "text": "(1) Before the completion of the registration of any person as owner of any land. . . , the applicant for registration or his solicitor shall, if so required by the Registrar, make an affidavit that, to the best of his knowledge and belief—\n(a) all deeds, wills and other documents of title affecting the title the subject of the application;\n(b) all incumbrances affecting such title; and\n(c) all facts material to such title;\nhave been disclosed in the documentation lodged in connection with the particular application for registration.\n(2) The Registrar may require any person making an affidavit in pursuance of subsection (1) to state in his affidavit what means he has had of becoming acquainted with the several matters referred to in that subsection.\n(3) Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2), the Registrar may, if he is of the opinion that any further or other evidence is necessary or desirable before completing the registration, refuse to complete the registration until such further or other evidence is produced.",
  "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/29",
    "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."
}