Rules

Land Registration Rules 

• Land Registry Rules 1 – 193 
• Rule 1 – Commencement 
• Rule 2 – Interpretation 
• Rule 3 – Form and contents of registers 

• Rule 4 – Manner of registration 
• Rule 5 – Revision of folios of registers 
• Rule 6 – Formal alterations of register and cancellation of determined entries 
• Rule 7 – Correction of errors 
• Rule 8 – Description of property 

• Rule 9 – Indexes 
• Rule 10 – Closing of register in respect of charges 
• Rule 11 – Applications for registration 
• Rule 12 – Applications not in order 
• Rule 13 – Additional evidence and enquiries 

• Rule 14 – Applications for first registration 
• Rule 15 – Documents to accompany application for registration of ownership of freehold property 
• Rule 16 – Documents to accompany application for registration of ownership of leasehold interests and of rights other than incorporeal hereditaments held in gross 
• Rule 17 – Application for first registration based on possession 
• Rule 18 – Examination of title 

• Rule 19 – Modification of examination of title 
• Rule 20 – Application by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for registration with possessory title 
• Rule 21 – Application by local authority under statutory powers for first registration of purchaser 
• Rule 22 – Documents to be lodged on registration procured by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 
• Rule 23 – Transfers to registers of recorded property 

• Rule 24 – Registration of recorded property 
• Rule 25 – Entry of easement or profit à prendre as part of description of property registered 
• Rule 26 – Property acquired under the Land Purchase Acts and on exchange 
• Rule 27 – Notice of statutory restrictions 
• Rule 28 – Entries relative to mines and minerals 

• Rule 29 – Apartment, flat, floor, cellar, tunnel, mines and minerals, soil, subsoil, attic, airspace or foreshore 
• Rule 30 – Form of caution against first registration and affidavit in support of it 
• Rule 31 – Time for objection and form of notice on cautioner 
• Rule 32 – Application where ownership registered 30 years 
• Rule 33 – Application where ownership registered 12 years under transfer for value 

• Rule 34 – Application where property acquired on sale or by a statutory authority and value does not exceed €1,000,000 
• Rule 35 – Other applications for conversion of possessory title 
• Rule 36 – Examination of title to interests protected by registration with a possessory title 
• Rule 37 – Conversion of registered title in cases under Section 50(2) of the Act 
• Rule 38 – Notice, advertisement and enquiries before such conversions 

• Rule 39 – Application for conversion of qualified title 
• Rule 40 – Notice of intended conversion to be given 
• Rule 41 – How burdens ascertained entered on conversion 
• Rule 42 – How register made conformable with titles ascertained 
• Rule 43 – Where deeds are deposited to create a lien 

• Rule 44 – Other examinations of title outside register 
• Rule 45 – Title to registered property acquired by possession 
• Rule 46 – Acquisition of easements and profits by prescription 
• Rule 47 – Form of affidavit of discovery 
• Rule 48 – First registration of tenants in common 

• Rule 49 – First registration of trustee owner 
• Rule 50 – Notice to be given of proposed registration 
• Rule 51 – Date of registration 
• Rule 52 – Form of instruments 
• Rule 53 – Applications or instruments in improper form 

• Rule 54 – Evidence of execution of instruments 
• Rule 55 – Evidence of execution of instrument by attorney 
• Rule 56 – Identification of part of registered property transferred 
• Rule 57 – Presentation of dealing for registration 
• Rule 58 – Priority of dealings received for registration 

• Rule 59 – Notice in register of pending registration 
• Rule 60 – Date of registration 
• Rule 61 – Amendment of instrument and priority of amended instrument 
• Rule 62 – Stamp certificate issued by Revenue Commissioners 
• Rule 63 – Registration of a tenant in common 

• Rule 64 – Registration of trustee owner 
• Rule 65 – Application by registered owner for amendment 
• Rule 66 – Application for registration of trustees 
• Rule 67 – Forms of transfer 
• Rule 68 – Form of lease 

• Rule 69 – Registration of transferee who is a trustee 
• Rule 70 – Registration under a transfer or vesting order on sale in execution of order of court 
• Rule 71 – Effect of covenant to pay rent or indemnify may be noted in register 
• Rule 72 – Registration of purchaser from personal representative of owner discharged from judgment mortgage on interest of beneficiary 
• Rule 73 – Registration under grant reserving rent 

• Rule 74 – Registration of companies 
• Rule 75 – Registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner 
• Rule 76 – Notice of application for registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner 
• Rule 77 – Cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner 
• Rule 78 – Notice of cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner 

• Rule 79 – Registration of transfer under power of sale 
• Rule 80 – Registration of trustees or assignees of bankrupt owner and re-registration of the owner 
• Rule 81 – Registration of transferee of local authority under statute 
• Rule 82 – Registration of local authority under statute 
• Rule 83 – Registration of dispositions of recorded property 

• Rule 84 – Registration of new trustee of friendly society 
• Rule 85 – Application for registration where registered owner died prior to 1st June, 1959 
• Rule 86 – Assent by personal representative(s) on death testate to registration of person entitled; application of person entitled for registration 
• Rule 87 – Transfer by personal representative(s) on death testate to person entitled 
• Rule 88 – Application for registration by a person, other than the personal representative(s) entitled on intestacy 

• Rule 89 – Application for registration by personal representative entitled on intestacy 
• Rule 90 – Application for registration on death of person entitled but not registered as owner 
• Rule 91 – Transmission on death of owner of charge or other burden 
• Rule 92 – Note of death of registered owner 
• Rule 93 – Application for registration of successor of limited owner 

• Rule 94 – Application for registration by survivor or survivors of joint tenants 
• Rule 95 – Registration pursuant to court order 
• Rule 96 – The assent to registration of burdens that is to be given by persons other than the owner 
• Rule 97 – How assent to registration of burden is to be given 
• Rule 98 – How burden may be entered 

• Rule 99 – Note in register where statutory priority for burden claimed 
• Rule 100 – Instrument creating two or more burdens and priority thereof 
• Rule 101 – Evidence on which a burden may be cancelled or modified 
• Rule 102 – Application for cancellation of charge by electronic means 
• Rule 103 – Application for cancellation of Property Adjustment Order 

• Rule 104 – Where burden may be cancelled as extinguished 
• Rule 105 – Forms of charge, transfer of charge and release 
• Rule 106 – Registration of charge created by a company 
• Rule 107 – Crystallised charge as burden 
• Rule 108 – Sub-charges 

• Rule 109 – Dealing with mortgage created prior to first registration where registered 
• Rule 110 – Registration of judgment mortgage 
• Rule 110A – Registration of judgment mortgage 
• Rule 110B – Registration of judgment mortgage 
• Rule 111 – Evidence on registration of judgment mortgage 

• Rule 112 – Notice of registration of judgment mortgage 
• Rule 113 – Application to cancel entry of judgment mortgage on grounds of invalidity 
• Rule 114 – Cancellation of entry of judgment mortgage validly registered 
• Rule 115 – Lease 
• Rule 116 – Power to charge and trust to secure money 

• Rule 117 – Lien for unpaid purchase money 
• Rule 118 – Judgment or order of court 
• Rule 119 – Lis Pendens 
• Rule 120 – Recognisances, bonds and judgments 
• Rule 121 – Easement or profit à prendre 

• Rule 122 – Form of caution, affidavit or certificate in support and notice 
• Rule 123 – Warning notice to cautioner 
• Rule 124 – Application by registered owner for discharge of caution 
• Rule 125 – Procedure on appearance by cautioner to a warning notice 
• Rule 126 – Withdrawal of caution or consent of cautioner to dealing 

• Rule 127 – Lapse of caution 
• Rule 128 – Form of inhibition 
• Rule 129 – Entry of inhibition on consent 
• Rule 130 – Application for inhibition where there is no consent 
• Rule 131 – Procedure on application for inhibition 

• Rule 132 – Procedure on objection to inhibition 
• Rule 133 – Modification or discharge of registered inhibition 
• Rule 134 – Application in anticipation of dealing inhibited without Authority’s order or approval 
• Rule 135 – Procedure on lodgment of dealing inhibited without notice to specified persons 
• Rule 136 – Inhibition under order of court 

• Rule 137 – Entry of notice of certain burdens that affect without registration 
• Rule 138 – Entry of notice of exemption from certain burdens under Section 72(2) of the Act 
• Rule 139 – Entry of conclusiveness of a boundary of property 
• Rule 140 – Entry of boundary ascertained by Land Judge’s conveyance 
• Rule 141 – Entry of boundary by agreement 

• Rule 142 – Settlement of boundary on transfer 
• Rule 143 – Removal of description of infancy 
• Rule 144 – Entry in register on conversion of a registered renewable lease 
• Rule 145 – Limited Ownership 
• Rule 146 – Form of Registry maps 

• Rule 147 – Contents of Registry maps 
• Rule 148 – Persons who may represent minors 
• Rule 149 – Appointment of person to represent a minor 
• Rule 150 – Appointment of person to represent person of unsound mind 
• Rule 151 – Lodgment of documents subject to lien 

• Rule 152 – Documents that are to be retained in Registry and that may be delivered 
• Rule 153 – Delivery of documents relating to unregistered property 
• Rule 154 – Endorsement of documents delivered 
• Rule 155 – Delivery of documents to solicitor for production in court or for taxation purposes 
• Rule 156 – Transmission of documents to court 

• Rule 157 – Application for transmission of document to a County Registrar 
• Rule 158 – County Registrar custodian of document transmitted 
• Rule 159 – Inspection of filed documents and obtaining copies thereof 
• Rule 160 – Official search 
• Rule 161 – Priority entry 

• Rule 162 – Effect of priority entry 
• Rule 163 – Priority where two or more priority entries are made 
• Rule 164 – Solicitor or other person not liable for error in official search 
• Rule 165 – Searches by public 
• Rule 166 – Proceedings not to abate 

• Rule 167 – Evidence in proceedings 
• Rule 168 – Affidavits and statutory declarations in proceedings 
• Rule 169 – Form of notices issued 
• Rule 170 – Service of notices 
• Rule 171 – Every notice served 

• Rule 172 – Procedure on return of notice sent by post 
• Rule 173 – Personal service of notice, summons or order 
• Rule 174 – How questions determined 
• Rule 175 – Summons by Authority 
• Rule 176 – Powers of Authority under Sections 16 and 94 of the Act 

• Rule 177 – Costs of proceedings before Authority 
• Rule 178 – Enforcement of order for costs 
• Rule 179 – Recording of decisions of Authority 
• Rule 180 – Procedure on Appeals to Court 
• Rule 181 – Reference of questions to court 

• Rule 182 – General powers of Authority 
• Rule 183 – Power to treat proceedings as abandoned 
• Rule 184 – To whom application for compensation is to be made 
• Rule 185 – Contents of application for compensation 
• Rule 186 – Rights in land which may be registered 

• Rule 187 – Incorporeal hereditaments held in gross 
• Rule 188 – Application of the Act to incorporeal hereditaments held in gross 
• Rule 189 – Application of the Act to rights other than incorporeal hereditaments held in gross 
• Rule 190 – Exchanges under Section 46 of the Land Act, 1923 
• Rule 191 – Effect of registration on exchange 

• Rule 192 – Registration with possessory title 
• Rule 193 – Notices to be given