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

8. Certification with Qualified Title

Where a Solicitor is not sufficiently satisfied to register a property with Absolute Title, he will be able to register it with Qualified Title.  The Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 allows application to be made for registration with Qualified Title.

A suitable Qualification will be the date of the Root of Title, if less than 30 years.  The Root of Title may be the current deed.

At present, where a property is registered with Possessory Title or Qualified Title, application can be made to convert title to Absolute after 15 years.  However, the conversion is not automatic.

I suggest that the conversion ought to be automatic, unless in the meantime a counter claim has been lodged.  The period for conversion should, also, be reduced from 15 years to 6 years.

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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