Guidelines to Land Registration in Ireland

Presented by Proinnsias Ó Cillín BL, BSc (IT), MSc, Land Registration Consultant

1. Changing Times

2. Popular Queries

3. Avoiding Queries

4. Fundamental Mistakes

5. The NCT Attitude

6. Solicitors' Exposure

7. Required Certification of Title

8. Qualified Title

9. Conversion of Title

10. Adverse Possession

11. Documentary First Registration

12. More Changes Coming

7. Coming Soon: Certification of Title required

Coming very soon, possibly within the next year, will be another important step towards the automated system: required Certification of Title by Solicitors.

The Registration of Title Act 1965 intended to extend registration of title to the whole country.  This was to be done by Compulsory Registration, which applied to selected counties.  I believe that the Property Registration Authority wants to progress this much more rapidly than in the past, but at the rate that Titles can be officially examined, the process would take another sixty to a hundred years.  Instead the Registration Authority may want to see the job completed in 3 or 4 years.

This would be achieved by

1. Extending Compulsory First Registration to the whole country and all Deeds relating to unregistered land, and
2. Requiring all First Registrations to be certified by a Solicitor or a Barrister, whereupon the Registration Authority will register the title without examination and without query, except for purely technical matters.

Proinnsias Ó Cillín

Land Registration Forum

Societal Information System (project 1997 - 1999)

History of Land Tenure in Ireland

Demonstration: Land Registration system of the Future?

A Model for Land Registration in the Information Age

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