Registration of Title Act, 1964

Burdens which may be registered as affecting registered land.

69.—(1) There may be registered as affecting registered land any of the following burdens, namely—

(a) any incumbrance on the land existing at the time of the first registration of the land;

(b) any charge on the land duly created after the first registration of the land;

(c) any rentcharge (not being a rentcharge to which, though not registered, the land is subject under section 72) or fee farm or other perpetual rent issuing out of the land;

(d) any power to charge land with payment of money, whether created or arising before or after the first registration of the land;

(e) any trust for securing money created or arising after the first registration of the land;

(f) any lien on the land for unpaid purchase money;

(g) any lease where the term granted is for a life or lives, or is determinable on a life or lives, or exceeds twenty-one years, or where the term is for any less estate or interest but the occupation is not in accordance with the lease;

(h) any judgment or order of a court, whether existing before or after the first registration of the land;

(i) any judgment mortgage, recognizance, State bond, inquisition or lis pendens, whether existing before or after the first registration of the land;

(j) any easement, profit à prendre or mining right created by express grant or reservation after the first registration of the land;

(k) any covenant or condition relating to the use or enjoyment of the land or of any specified portion thereof;

(l) any estate in dower;

(m) any burden to which section 54 of the Forestry Act, 1946 , relates;

(n) any right of the Land Commission or a local authority to lay pipe-lines for whatsoever purpose and any right ancillary thereto;

(o) a power to appoint an estate or interest in the property exercisable within a period not exceeding a life or lives in being and twenty-one years thereafter;

(p) a power of distress or entry;

(q) a right in the nature of a lien for money's worth in or over the property for a limited period not exceeding life, such as a right of support or a right of residence (whether an exclusive right of residence or not);

(r) a burden created by statute or under a statutory power that is not one of the burdens to which, though not registered, registered land is subject under section 72;

(s) any such other matter as may be prescribed.

(2) A burden may be registered under this section on the application of the registered owner of the land or of any person entitled to or interested in the burden but, if the application is made without the concurrence of the registered owner of the land or such other person as may be prescribed, the burden shall not be registered except in pursuance of an order of the court.

(3) Any covenant or condition registered under this section may be modified or discharged by order of the court on proof to the satisfaction of the court that the covenant or condition does not run with the land, or is not capable of being enforced against the owner of the land, or that the modification or discharge thereof will be beneficial to the persons principally interested in the enforcement thereof, and may, with the consent of all persons interested in the enforcement thereof, be modified or discharged by the Registrar without any such order.

(4) The Registrar may, on the prescribed evidence and subject to the prescribed conditions, modify or cancel any entry under this section of a burden not being such a covenant or condition as aforesaid.