Real Property Regulations 2024

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How Real Property Regulations 2024 is organised

The 25 Parts below are the instrument's own divisions, in the order the official text sets them out.

What Real Property Regulations 2024 covers, section by section

The 183 section headings below are the instrument's own, reproduced in its order. They are a map of the law, not a summary of it — for the wording of any article, read the official text.

1. Types of Real Property Interests
2. Types of Conveyances
3. Registrable Interests and Conveyances
4. General Principles
5. Appointment of the Registrar
6. Seal of office
7. The Registrar shall establish and maintain a real property register
8. Contents of Register
9. Information the Registrar shall register
10. Duty to create instrument and lodge for registration
11. Registrar’s duty to register instruments
12. Registrar shall give distinguishing reference to each registered instrument
13. Order of registration of instruments
14. Registered owner may be an individual or a body corporate
15. Registration after death of party executing instrument
16. Priority of registered instruments
17. Instrument of subordination
18. Conclusive evidence of information in Register
19. Need for registration
20. Effect of registration on interest
21. Consideration not needed
22. Conclusive effect of registration: ownership
23. Quality of registered interests
24. Exceptions to section ‎23
25. Nature and priority of unregistered instruments
26. Creation of folio on the Registrar’s initiative
27. Creation of folio on primary application: general
28. Creation of folio on primary application: units in buildings
29. Cancellation of title documents
30. Information to be included in folio
31. Requirement to register the name of a building
32. Application to register the name of a building
33. Registering life interests, reversions and remainders
34. Registering co-owners
35. Severing joint tenancy
36. Registering transfer
37. Effect of registration of transfer
38. Court to determine compensation on just terms
39. Court to order payment of compensation
40. Transfer under statutory vesting or grant
41. Right of Board to adopt eminent domain regulations
42. Lease of real property
43. Obligation to register lease and renewal
44. Requirements for lease to be registered
45. Permitted use
46. Variation of registered lease
47. Expiry or termination of lease
48. Termination of lease following lessee’s default
49. Surrendering a lease
50. Relief from forfeiture
51. Lessee’s goods
52. Form of short-term residential lease
53. Security deposit
54. Vacant possession and quiet enjoyment
55. Rent
56. Repair
57. Lessor’s right of entry
58. Building and community service charges and obligations
59. Utilities
60. Renewal of a short-term residential lease
61. Rent increase on renewal of a short-term residential lease
62. Termination without an order of the Court
63. Termination with an order of the Court
64. Alienation of an interest in the short-term residential lease
65. Appointment of a property manager
66. Right to mortgage
67. Requirements for mortgage
68. Mortgage as charge only
69. Variation of mortgage
70. Discharge of mortgage
71. Extent of discharge of mortgage
72. Implied powers of mortgagees
73. Exercise of power of sale
74. Injunction to restrain power of sale
75. Effect of transfer after sale by mortgagee
76. Application of proceeds of sale
77. Appointment of receiver
78. Foreclosure
79. Right to tack further advances
80. Registration of statutory charges
81. Easements in gross permitted
82. Easements by prescription or implication
83. Rights to support of real property and structures
84. Implied easements for services in development
85. Implied easements of way and other rights shown in subdivision plan
86. Creation of easement by registration
87. Requirements for easement
88. Easement benefiting and burdening same registered owner’s lots
89. Variation or release of easement by parties
90. Same person becoming registered owner of benefited and burdened lots
91. Cancellation of easement
92. Court order varying or extinguishing easement
93. Party walls
94. Easements created by Court order
95. Contribution to repairs
96. Covenants in gross permitted
97. Positive covenants permitted
98. Creation of covenant by registration
99. Requirements for covenant
100. Covenant benefiting and burdening same registered owner’s lots
101. Variation or release of covenant by parties
102. Same person becoming registered owner of benefited and burdened lots
103. Duration of covenant
104. Court order varying or extinguishing covenant
105. Benefit of covenants relating to land
106. Burden of covenants relating to land
107. Covenants binding land
108. Effect of covenant with two or more jointly
109. Registration of personal representative
110. Dealings without registration of personal representative
111. Notice of death or defeasance
112. Request to register writ of execution
113. Registration of writ
114. Effect of registering writ of execution
115. Cancellation of registration of writ
116. Discharging or satisfying writ of execution
117. Who may lodge a caveat?
118. Requirements of caveat
119. Registering a caveat
120. Notifying caveat
121. Effect of lodging caveat
122. Withdrawal of caveat
123. Lapsing of caveat
124. Removal of caveat by Court order
125. Further caveat
126. Order for security
127. Compensation for improper caveat
128. Notices to caveator
129. Right to injunction not affected
130. Execution of certain instruments
131. Indicating consent when required for dealing
132. Execution of instruments by business entities and natural persons
133. Execution of instrument under power of attorney
134. Instruments capable of registration
135. Address for service to be provided
136. Lodgement and deposit of instruments by electronic or other means
137. Registrar’s power to correct obvious errors in instruments
138. Registrar’s requisitions
139. Rejecting instrument if requisitions not complied with
140. Right to relodge rejected instrument
141. Requiring plan of survey to be lodged
142. Standard terms documents
143. General powers of the Registrar
144. The Registrar may correct Register
145. The Registrar may prepare and lodge caveat
146. The Registrar may state a case
147. Payment of certain fees to the Registrar
148. Payment of late filing fees
149. The Registrar may approve forms
150. The Registrar’s failure or refusal to perform a duty
151. Entitlement to search the Register
152. Evidentiary effect of documents issued by Registrar
153. Official searches
154. Existing rights
155. Contraventions and Fines
156. General false statement contravention
157. Words and expressions used in instruments
158. Reference to instrument is reference to instrument completed in approved form
159. Service of notices
160. Deemed receipt in certain cases
161. Rules
162. Conveyances
163. Release of powers simply collateral
164. Disclaimer of power
165. Protection of purchasers claiming under certain void appointments
166. Abolition of the double possibility rule
167. Presumption of survivorship in regard to claims to property
168. Abolishing contingent remainders
169. Abolishing of certain laws
170. Legal assignments of things in action
171. Validation of appointments where objects are excluded or take illusory shares
172. Existing musataha and usufruct interests on Al Reem Island
173. Existing ownership interests on Al Reem Island
174. Existing granted land on Al Reem Island
175. Existing lease interests in Al Reem Island
176. Corrections of the Register
177. Priority of registered instruments
178. Application of these Regulations to real property located on Al Reem Island
179. Extensions of time
181. Rules of interpretation
182. Defined terms
183. Purpose of these Regulations
184. Short Title, extent and commencement

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