REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 14A
Consolidation with adjoining land in certain cases
REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 14A
Consolidation with adjoining land in certain cases
14A Consolidation with adjoining land in certain cases
(1) Where application is made under section 14 by the registered proprietor of
an estate in fee simple in any land claiming, by reason of possession and by
virtue of any statute of limitations, title to the like estate in the whole or
part of any adjoining land comprised in a limited folio of the Register
adverse to or in derogation of the title of the registered proprietor thereof,
the Registrar-General may require the application to be accompanied by a plan
of survey comprising the land the subject of the claim and the applicant's
adjoining land.
(2) Such an application may be granted by recording the
applicant in the Register as the proprietor in fee simple of the whole of the
land comprised in the plan of survey.
(3) Upon the granting of the
application, the land to which title was therein claimed shall cease to be
subject to any registered encumbrances, liens, interests and burdens
previously affecting it and shall cease to have the benefit of any rights,
privileges, benefits, easements or profits à prendre previously
attached thereto, but shall become subject to the same encumbrances, liens,
interests and burdens and shall have attached thereto the same rights,
privileges, benefits, easements and profits à prendre as the
applicant's adjoining land.
(4) Section 114 (2) applies to and in respect of
a requirement made by the Registrar-General under subsection (1) in the same
way as it applies to and in respect of a requirement under section 114 (1).