{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-63.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/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Description of registered land.",
  "text": "(1) Registered land shall be described in the title register—\n(a) by means of a verbal description and a reference to the registry map; or\n(b) by means of a verbal description and a filed plan, based on an ordnance map; or\n(c) in such other manner as, in the opinion of the Registrar, secures accuracy.\n(2) The description of land in the title register need not include its area.",
  "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/63",
    "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."
}