Land Title Registration Act, 1986.

The object of the Act is to provide a system for the registration of title to land and interests in land. The 139 sections of the Act are divided into 11 Parts: Establishment of Land Title Registry and Appointment of Officers (I); Compilation of the Register (II); Maps, parcels and boundaries (III); Effect of registration (IV); Certificates and searches (V); Dispositions (VI); Instruments and agents (VII); Transmission and Trust (VIII); Restraints on Disposition (IX); Rectification and Indemnity (X); Miscellaneous (XI).
Section 3 provides for the appointment of the Chief Registrar of Lands and Land Registration. Part VI is divided into 6 Subchapters: General provisions (I); Leases (II); Mortgages (III); Transfers (IV); Easements, Restrictive Agreements, profits and licences (V); Co-proprietorship and partition (VI). Subchapter II provides that a lease of registered land shall be created by an instrument in the prescribed form. Section 66 requires verification of the consent of a lessor to transactions in respect of leases. Other provisions of the Subchapter deal with substitution of leases, variation and extension of leases, surrender of leases and the determination of leases.