Guidelines for Applications under the Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents)(No.2) Act 1978

Certification of Title – LR Form 3

Certification of Title – Benefits of Registration of Title

The Form 3 procedure : Situations in which Form 3 may not be appropriate: Fast Track Process

LR Rule 5 – Revision of folios of registers

(1) The Authority, on an application by the registered owner or when it thinks it practicable or desirable, may clear the title to property...

LR Rule 6 – Formal alterations of register and cancellation of determined entries

The Authority may, at any time, after such inquiries and notices (if any) as it may consider proper and upon such evidence as...

LR Rule 7 – Correction of errors

(1) Where a clerical error is discovered in a register or registry map, the Authority may, after giving any notices and obtaining any...

LR Rule 8 – Description of property

(1) The description of property in the registers shall be by reference to the names and denominations recorded by Ordnance Survey Ireland and...

LR Rule 9 – Indexes

(1) There shall be maintained in the Registry an index of names and an index of lands.  (2) The index of names shall...

LR Rule 10 – Closing of register in respect of charges

A requisition by an owner of a charge registered in the register maintained under Section 8(b) of the Act to close such register...

LR Rule 13 – Additional evidence and enquiries

If the Authority at any time considers that the production of any further documents or evidence or the giving of any notice is...

LR Rule 14 – Applications for first registration

Every application for first registration of ownership under the Act, except an application under Rules 17, 19(3), 19(4), 20(1), 21 or 22, shall...

LR Rule 18 – Examination of title

Every title to property the subject of an application under Rule 14 or 17 shall be examined by or under the supervision of...

LR Rule 20 – Application by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for registration with possessory title

(1) An application by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine under Section 26(1) of the Act for the first registration of...

LR Rule 22 – Documents to be lodged on registration procured by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

When the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has acquired property under his/her statutory powers or sold property to a purchaser under...

LR Rule 23 – Transfers to registers of recorded property

(1) The title to property recorded under the Record of Title (Ireland) Act, 1865, shall, at such times as the Authority may direct,...

LR Rule 24 – Registration of recorded property

On the transfer of recorded property to a register under the Act –  (a) all charges, incumbrances, leases and other rights on the...

LR Rule 25 – Entry of easement or profit á prendre as part of description of property registered

(1) An easement or profit à prendre expressly granted as an appurtenance by a Land Judge’s conveyance or a Land Commission or Minister...

LR Rule 26 – Property acquired under the Land Purchase Acts and on exchange

(1) Where, on first registration of property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts, the Authority is not satisfied that the granting of an...

LR Rule 29 – Apartment, flat, floor, cellar, tunnel, mines and minerals, soil, subsoil, attic, airspace or foreshore

(1)(a) Where the property comprised in an application for registration is part of a premises, or a cellar or tunnel, or mines and...

LR Rule 30 – Form of caution against first registration and affidavit in support of it

(1) A caution requiring notice of an application for the first registration of the ownership of property shall be in Form 7.  (2)...

LR Rule 34 – Application where property acquired on sale or by a statutory authority and value does not exceed €1,000,000 

(1) Where property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts and registered with a possessory title has been acquired on sale or by a...

LR Rule 35 – Other applications for conversion of possessory title

(1) Every other application for the conversion of a possessory title into an absolute title in the case of property purchased under the...

LR Rule 37 – Conversion of registered title in cases under Section 50(2) of the Act

(1) In a case to which Section 50(2)(a) of the Act applies, the applicant shall lodge all the documents specified in that paragraph...

LR Rule 38 – Notice, advertisement and enquiries before such conversions

Before conversion of a possessory title in a case to which the foregoing rule applies, the Authority-  (a) may serve such notices as...

LR Rule 39 – Application for conversion of qualified title

  An application to convert a qualified title into an absolute or good leasehold title shall be made in writing and shall be...

LR Rule 44 – Other examinations of title outside register

An application to examine the title of-  (a) the lessor of a leasehold interest the ownership of which is registered with a good...

LR Rule 51 – Date of registration

  Every registration or entry in a register consequential on an examination of title of unregistered interests shall be made as of the...

LR Rule 55 – Evidence of execution of instrument by attorney

Where an application or instrument is executed by attorney, the power of attorney, or a certified copy made pursuant to Section 21 of...

LR Rule 57 – Presentation of dealing for registration

(1) Applications for registration may be sent, delivered or transmitted to such office(s) or address(es) of the Authority as it may designate.  (2)...

LR Rule 58 – Priority of dealings received for registration

(1) Save as is otherwise provided in these Rules, applications, including those lodged by hand, shall rank for priority of registration in the...

LR Rule 59 – Notice in register of pending registration

Notice of every application received for registration shall, pending registration, be entered in the folio of the register to which it relates in...

LR Rule 60 – Date of registration

Except as otherwise provided by statute, or as provided in Rules 51, 61(3) and 161, registration shall be completed as of the day...

LR Rule 61 – Amendment of instrument and priority of amended instrument

(1) Where any alteration is required in an instrument after it has been received for registration, it may, if the Authority permits, be...

LR Rule 67 – Forms of transfer

A transfer shall be made by an instrument in such one of the Forms 19, 21 to 24, 29 and 30 as may...

LR Rule 110B – Registration of judgement mortgage

LR Rule 113 – Application to cancel entry of judgment mortgage on grounds of invalidity

(1) Where an entry of notice of the deposit of an affidavit of judgment under the Judgment Mortgage (Ireland) Act, 1850 or an...

LR Rule 114 – Cancellation of entry of judgment mortgage validly registered

Subject to an inhibition in the register to the contrary, an entry of notice of the deposit of an affidavit of judgment or...

LR Rule 115 – Lease

(1) An application for registration of a lease duly created after first registration of the property affected as a burden shall be made...

LR Rule 119 – Lis Pendens

(1) An application for the registration of a lis pendens as a burden shall be made in Form 64. It shall be signed...

LR Rule 121 – Easement or profit à prendre

(1) Every application for the registration of an easement or profit à prendre as a burden shall be accompanied by an application map...

LR Rule 122 – Form of caution, affidavit or certificate in support and notice

(1) A caution against dealings by a registered owner shall be in Form 70. The caution shall be signed by the cautioner or...

LR Rule 124 – Application by registered owner for discharge of caution

An application by a registered owner for the discharge of a caution shall state the grounds of his/her application, as, for instance, that...

LR Rule 125 – Procedure on appearance by cautioner to a warning notice

(1) A cautioner or his/her personal representative may appear before the Authority or deliver a statement in writing at the Registry, at any...

LR Rule 126 – Withdrawal of caution or consent of cautioner to dealing

(1) A caution may be withdrawn at any time either as against the whole or any part of the property to which it...

LR Rule 128 – Form of inhibition

(1) An inhibition for the protection of an unregistered right or interest may be in the terms of one of the clauses in...

LR Rule 131 – Procedure on application for inhibition

(1) The Authority may refuse to enter an inhibition applied for unless modified in such manner as it shall direct.  (2) Where the...

LR Rule 134 – Application in anticipation of dealing inhibited without Authority’s order or approval

(1) An application may be made to the Authority in anticipation of an intended dealing with property subject to an inhibition in the register...

LR Rule 149 – Appointment of person to represent a minor

   (1) Where there is no person authorised by the foregoing rule to represent a minor or where someone other than such person...

LR Rule 170 – Service of notices

Every notice required by the Act or these Rules to be given to any person may be sent through the post in a...

LR Rule 172 – Procedure on return of notice sent by post

On the return by the post office of a letter containing a notice, the Authority may require some other notice to be given...

LR Rule 173 – Personal service of notice, summons or order

(1) Personal service of a notice or summons by or order of the Authority shall be made by delivering the notice or summons...

LR Rule 181 – Reference of questions to court

(1) An order of the Authority referring a question of law or fact to the court under Section 19(2) of the Act or...

LR Rule 182 – General powers of Authority

The Authority may, in any particular case, extend the time limited or relax the regulations made by these Rules and may, at any...

LR Rule 184 – To whom application for compensation is to be made

Every application for compensation out of the Central Fund (under Section 120 of the Act) shall be made in writing to the Authority...

LR Rule 185 – Contents of application for compensation

Every application for compensation shall be signed by the claimant or his/her solicitor and shall contain –  (a) particulars of the property for...

LR Rule 186 – Rights in land which may be registered

It is prescribed pursuant to Section 8(b)(ii) of the Act that the ownership of the following rights in land may be entered in...

LR Rule 187 – Incorporeal hereditaments held in gross

 (1) An applicant for registration of ownership of an incorporeal hereditament held in gross shall be registered as owner with an absolute title...

LR Rule 189 – Application of the Act to rights other than incorporeal hereditaments held in gross

  The provisions of the Act relating to the registration of the title to land (except those relative to the registration of limited...

LR Rule 192 – Registration with possessory title

Where it appears from the register that the burdens arising from the interest vested in the purchaser of the original holding under the...

Adverse Possession Application Guidelines

Applications for First Registration Based on Possession Lodgement Checklist Common errors leading to rejection of applications (a) LR Form 5 not lodged or...

1 of 1994 – Freezing Orders under Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994

1 of 2013 – Zurich Bank change of name to Dunbar Assets Ireland

3 of 2013 – IBRC Special Liquidation Order

4 of 2013 – National Irish Bank Limited to Danske Bank A/S

Office Notice No. 4 of 2013 

6 of 2014 – Receivers – Deeds of Appointment

7 of 2014 – ICS Building Society and The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland

1 of 2015 – Transfers Executed by both Receiver and Chargee in Exercise of Power of Sale 

2 of 2015 – Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle [ICAV]

1 of 2016 – Ulster Bank Ireland Limited conversion to Ulster Bank Ireland DAC

1 of 2019 – Leases Ranking after Charges

1 of 2020 – Newbridge Credit Union Limited and Permanent TSB plc

Office Notice No. 1 of 2020

10 of 2011 – Vesting Certificates (Ground Rents)

6 of 2011 – Vesting Orders under Section 26 of the Courts Service Act 1998

4 of 2011 – NAMA Discharges

Office Notice No. 4 of 2011

5 of 2011- Partial Discharges (Stand Alone)

Office Notice No. 5 of 2011

2 of 2011 – NAMA Registration of National Asset Management Agency

Office Notice No. 2 of 2011

6 of 2010 – Ulster Bank Ireland Limited and First Active plc

4 of 2010 – KBC Bank Ireland plc

1 of 2010 – Land Certificates Return and Retention Policy

 8 of 2009 – Registration of Deeds Rules 2009

2 of 2009 – Property Adjustment Order LR

Office Notice No. 2 of 2009

1 of 2009 – Property Adjustment Order ROD

2 of 2007 – Withdrawal of Name

15 of 2006 – Notices – Local Authorities – Dispositions by Local Authorities

4 of 2006 – Irish Church Act 1869 – Applications for Registration

7 of 2006 – Leases of Registered Land

8 of 2002 – Trustees – Disposal of Land by Trustees

Bulk Transfers of Charges and Judgment Mortgages

Introduction Preliminary Check of Excel Spreadsheet Data 3. Fees Applications re Registered Entries v Pending Entries 5. Transfer of Charges Transfer of Charges...

Court Cases and Procedures

1. General 2. Dispensing with Extraction of Grants (section 61(7) Registration of Title Act 1964) 3. Disobedience to Registrar’s Order to Produce Land...

eDischarges (Applications in electronic form for cancellation of charges)

1. Introduction 2. General 3. Application for cancellation 4. Processing of application 5. Fees Appendix 1

Execution of Deeds and Documents

1. Deeds, Consents, Applications 2. Affidavits At Home 3. Affidavits Abroad 4. Execution of Deed by a Receiver

Family Home and Family Law Acts

1. Definitions 2. The Family Home Protection Act 3. Land Registry Practice on lodgement of Transfer, Conveyances, Charges etc. 4. Registration of a...

First Registration and other Examiner cases

1. Application for First Registration of Freehold Title based on documentary title 2. Applications for First Registration of a Freehold Title based on...

First Registration in Form 3

1. Scope of this Practice Direction 2. Legislation referred to 3. Applications that may be registered under Form 3 procedures 4. Interest passing...

First Registration under the Land Purchase Acts

1. Application for First Registration of Freehold Title based on documentary title 2. Applications for First Registration of a Freehold Title based on...

Forestry Acts 1946 to 1976

1. General 2. Acquisition of land under the Acts 3. State ownership of certain inland waters 4. Certain burdens arising under the Acts...

Friendly, Co-operative and Building Societies

1. Friendly Societies 2. Registration of Societies registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893 3. Building Societies

Gas Act 1976

1. General 2. Acquisition of Land or Right over Land by Ministerial Order 3. Deeds of Easement 4. Cautions 5. Fees Appendix 1

Ground Rents

1. Introduction 2. The right to acquire the Fee Simple 3. The persons to whom the right is given 4. Restriction on the...

Housing Act 1966

1. General 2. Acquisition of Land by Housing Authorities 3. Housing Loans and Grants 4. Registration of Cottage Plots under the Labourers’ Act...

Inspection of Documents

1. Scope of this Practice Direction 2. Notes for Settling Officers 3. Procedure on application 4. Family Law and Civil Partnership documentation 5....

Judgment Mortgages

1. Judgments capable of registration 2. Form of Application 3. Persons entitled to apply to register a Judgment Mortgage 4. Process of registration...

Land Commission Orders

1. General 2. Land Commission Partition Orders 3. Acquisition of Land by the Land Commission

Leases – Enlargement of Long Leases into Freehold

1. Enlargement of Leases for Lives Renewable forever into Freehold under the Renewable Leaseholds Conversion Act 1849 2. Enlargement of certain Long Leases...

Local Authority Vesting Orders

1. Registration of Local Authorities as owners of Derelict Sites 2. Registration of Sanitary Authorities under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1964...

Lost Deeds

General

NAMA Applications for Registration

1. Introduction 2. Applications for the registration of the ownership of registered charges 3. Applications for the registration of the ownership of judgment...

Priority Entries

1. Introduction 2. General 3. Applying for a Priority Entry 4. Registration of a Priority Entry 5. Lodgement of dealing protected by a...

Rectification of Error and Claims for Compensation

1. Rectification of Errors – General 2. Claims for Compensation

Settlements destroyed in the Four Courts Fire of 1922

General

Transfer Orders under the Housing Acts 1966-2014

1. Definitions 2. Relevant legislation 3. Stamp duty 4. Prescribed forms of transfer orders 5. Transfer orders affecting unregistered property 6. Documents required...

Transfers of Registered Land

1. Transfer of registered property by the registered owner to a purchaser for value 2. Transfer of registered property to two persons as...

Trusts of Land

Introduction 1. Trusts in Land 2. Settlements 3. Rules against Remoteness 4....

Vesting Certificates

1. Acquisition of the fee simple under a Vesting Certificate 2. Compulsory First Registration 3. Where Investigation of Title is Required 4. Where...