Registration of Title Act 1964

F142[Priority of certain applications for registration.

108

108. (1) The Authority, if of opinion that a person has contracted to purchase or take a lease of registered land or to lend money on the security of a charge on it, shall, on application by the person and on notice by the person to the other party to the contract, make an entry in the register in the prescribed form.

(2) An application for registration by such a person in relation to the completion of the contract which is in order and is delivered to the Authority within a period of 21 days (or such longer period as may be prescribed) after the date of the entry ranks in priority before any other application for registration made within that period in respect of the land.

(3) In determining whether to prescribe a longer period than 21 days under subsection (2) and the duration of any such period, the Registration of Deeds and Titles Rules Committee shall have regard to

(a) changes in the period generally elapsing between applications by persons under subsection (1) and those made by such persons under subsection (2), and

(b) the need for adequate protection of the interests of parties to the contracts concerned.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F142

Substituted (1.09.2007) by Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 (12/2006), s. 66, S.I. No. 537 of 2007.

Editorial Notes:

E36

Previous affecting provision: subs. (2) amended (4.11.2006) by Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 (12/2006), s. 4(4), S.I. No. 511 of 2006; superseded as per F-note above.