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Land Titles Act - Singapore Statutes Online
Act 10 of 2003
3 Reconciliation with existing laws
Part II ESTABLISHMENT OF LAND TITLES REGISTRY
5 Appointment of Registrar, Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars and other officers
6 Seal of office
7 General powers of Registrar
Part III INITIAL REGISTRATION OF TITLES
Division 1  Bringing land under the Act on alienation
8 Alienation by State
9 Surrender and reissue of title to land
12 Restriction on registration or notification of assurance, instrument or caveat pending issue of fresh State title
13 Collector to furnish Registrar with particulars of fresh State title
14 Power of Registrar of Deeds to refuse registration of assurances
15 Application of section 8
16 Registrar to make an entry on folio as to conclusiveness of boundaries, etc.
17 Priority of interests protected by caveats, mortgages and statutory charges registered or notified on land-register
18 Collector may refuse to accept surrender of title to land for reissue of title
Division 2  Applications and schemes to bring land under this Act
19 Bringing lands under this Act
20 Primary applications
21 Unregistered land may be brought under this Act at instance of Registrar or on registration of conveyance
22 Land may be brought under this Act upon subdivision
23 In whose name title to issue
24 Mortgages and leases
24A Leases of flats erected on unregistered land
Division 3  Qualified titles and caveats
25 Cautions and lapsing of cautions
26 Cancellation of cautions
27 Prior encumbrances to be notified on folio
28 Land-register
29 Folios of land-register
30 New folios of land-register
31 Covenants restricting subdivision of land in State titles not to apply to registered land
32 Creation of new folios of land-register on application of mortgagee or chargee
33 Contingent interests
34 Certificates of title
35 Delivery of certificates of title, etc., after registration
36 Land-register as evidence
37 Registration and priority of instruments
38 Restrictions on Registrar’s powers of registration
39 Proprietors under disability
40 Corporations and limited liability partnerships
41 Death of party
42 Entries on documents of title
43 Replacement of certificates of title, etc.
43A Surrender of earlier certificate of title, etc., upon replacement
44 Disposal of antecedent documents or instruments following creation of folio
Part V EFFECT OF REGISTRATION
Division 1  Indefeasibility and priority
45 Instruments ineffectual until registered
46 Estate of proprietor paramount
47 Exoneration from effect of notice
48 Priority determined by order of registration
49 Priority of unregistered interests
Division 2  No title by adverse possession
50 No title by adverse possession
Part VI INSTRUMENTS
51 Approved forms
51A Lodgment of instrument in electronic form
52 Registration of mortgage, charge or lease
53 Manner of holding by co-owners
54 Description of land
54A Obtaining of lot or strata lot number
55 Memorandum of prior encumbrances
56 Proprietor must execute instrument
57 Attestation and proof of execution
58 Execution of instruments by corporations, etc.
59 Certificate of correctness
60 Address for service of notices
60A Service of notices, etc.
61 Instruments to take effect as deeds
62 Covenants in instruments: Words of succession implied
63 Form and effect of transfers
64 Transfers of land subject to mortgage or charge
65 Estates for life and in remainder
66 Merger of contract in transfer
67 Merger of registered interests
Part VIII MORTGAGES AND CHARGES
Division I  Mortgages of registered land
68 Form and effect of mortgages and charges
69 Application of Conveyancing and Law of Property Act
70 Standard covenants and conditions applicable to mortgages
71 Submortgages
72 Custody of documents of title
73 Transfers made in exercise of power of sale
74 Application of proceeds of sale
75 Entry into possession
76 Foreclosure of mortgages
77 Right to discharge
78 Discharge of mortgages and charges
79 Satisfaction of charges
80 Tacking of further advances
Division 2  Common law mortgages notified on land-register
81 Application of this Division
82 Application of sections 71 to 75 and 78 to 80
83 Mortgagee to execute transfer
84 Discharge of a mortgage, etc., notified on land-register
85 Foreclosure of mortgages notified on land-register
Part IX LEASES
86 Application of this Part
87 Form and registration of leases
88 Options for renewal and for purchase
89 Leases of mortgaged land
90 Covenants against assigning and subletting
91 Surrender of leases
92 Determination of leases
93 Implied powers of lessors
Part X EASEMENTS
94 Interpretation of this Part
95 Licences not to be registered
96 Easements for installations
97 Registration necessary for creation of easements
97A Power of court to create easements
98 Implied easements for passage of water, electricity, drainage, gas and sewerage for development
99 Implied easements for right of way and other rights shown in subdivision plan
100 Extinguishment by union of tenements
101 Easements to pass on transfer without express mention
102 Contribution to repairs
103 Grant of right of way
105 Variation or release of easements
105A Power of court to vary or extinguish easements
106 Cancellation of easements
Part XI TRANSMISSIONS
107 Transmission on death of proprietors in severalty
108 Dealings without transmission
109 Full number of personal representatives required
110 Transmission on bankruptcy
111 Caveats by Official Assignee
112 Bankruptcy: Effect of disclaimer, discharge and annulment
113 Effect of transmission
114 Notice of death or defeasance
Part XII CAVEATS
115 Caveats may be lodged
115A Controller of Residential Property may lodge caveat
116 Provisional notification of caveats
117 Notification of caveats
118 Caveats lodged before initial registration
119 Effect of caveats
120 Effect of lodgment of a dealing affecting interest claimed in a caveat
121 Lapsing of caveats
122 Extension of caveats
123 Service of notices on caveator
124 Order for security, etc.
125 Notifications for lapsing, cancellation or extension of caveats
126 Withdrawal of caveats
127 Remedies of caveatee
128 Compensation payable for wrongfully lodging caveats, etc.
129 Registration of dealings in land
130 Right to injunction not affected
Part XIII WRITS AND ORDERS OF COURT
131 Interpretation of this Part
132 Writs and orders not binding unless registered
133 Dealings by judgment debtors
134 Lapsing of writs
135 Land sold in pursuance of writs
136 Withdrawal and satisfaction of writs and orders
137 Vesting orders
Part XIV RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS
138 Interpretation of this Part
139 Notification of restrictions
140 Release and variation of restrictions
141 Duration of restrictions
Part XV STATUTORY ACQUISITION AND SALE
142 Statutory obligations
143 Compulsory acquisition of registered land
144 Sale of land for revenue or rates
145 Statutory vesting not elsewhere provided for
Part XVI POWERS OF ATTORNEY
146 Interpretation of this Part
147 Registration of instruments executed by attorneys
148 Exoneration of purchasers
149 General attorneys
150 Investigation and registration fees
Part XVII CIVIL RIGHTS AND REMEDIES
151 Assurance fund
152 Registrar may be summoned for refusal to register instruments, etc.
153 Registrar may state a case
154 Actions for recovery of land
155 Actions for recovery of damages
156 Procedure in actions against assurance fund
157 Protection of bona fide purchasers, Authority and Registrar
158 Limitation of actions for damages
159 Correction of errors in land-register
160 Rectification of land-register by court
Part XVIII SEARCHES AND CERTIFIED COPIES
161 Searches by public
162 Official searches
163 Priority affected by final official searches
164 Certified copies: Value as evidence
165 Subdivision of registered land
166 Trusts
167 Exoneration of Authority and Registrar
168 Fees and accounts
169 Offences and penalties
170 Composition of offences
171 Fees to be paid to Authority
172 Rules
173 Saving of rights
174 Savings
175 Validation of extensions of caveats lodged under repealed Act
176 Transitional provisions
(Original Enactment: Act 27 of 1993)
An Act which makes provision for the registration of titles to land.
[1st March 1994]
1. This Act may be cited as the Land Titles Act.
2. This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:
Reconciliation with existing laws
3.—(1) Except as provided in this Act, all Acts, regulations, rules, and other laws, and all practices, relating to estates and interests in land and operative at 1st March 1994, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act in their application to registered land, are repealed.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the Collector of Land Revenue, or of any other person or authority empowered by any written law, to enter on registered land pursuant to such a power.
(3) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the Registration of Deeds Act (Cap. 269) shall not apply to registered land.
(4) This Act shall bind the Government.
“certificate of title”, in relation to —
(a) a manual folio includes a duplicate certificate of title issued by the Registrar before or after 1st March 1994;
(b) a computer folio includes a print-out of that folio bearing a facsimile of the Registrar’s seal;
[Act 8 of 2014 wef 15/08/2014]
(a) the surface of any defined parcel of the earth, so much of the subterranean space below and so much of the column of airspace above the surface whether or not held apart from the surface as is reasonably necessary for the proprietor’s use and enjoyment, and includes any estate or interest therein and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto; or
(b) any parcel of airspace or any subterranean space whether or not held apart from the surface of the earth and described with certainty by reference to a plan approved by the Chief Surveyor and filed with the Authority, and includes any estate or interest therein and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto,
“limited liability partnership” means any limited liability partnership whether registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Cap. 163A) or otherwise;
“State title” means any grant or lease issued under the State Lands Act (Cap. 314) or State Lands Ordinance 1886 and includes a Crown grant or lease issued under the Crown Lands Ordinance 1886 at any time prior to 16th September 1963;
“unregistered land” means any land which has not yet been brought under the provisions of this Act.
[17/2001; 10/2003; 30/2003]
(2) [Deleted by Act 8 of 2014 wef 15/08/2014]
(3) A reference to land alienated by the State shall include a reference to land alienated by the Crown at any time prior to 16th September 1963.
(4) A reference in this Act to a facsimile of the Registrar’s seal shall be a reference to an official seal which is a facsimile of the seal of office referred to in section 6(1).
(5) A reference in this Act to subdivision of land (whether registered or unregistered) permitted, approved or granted by the competent authority shall include, where applicable, a reference to subdivision of land that is authorised by the Minister under a notification made under section 21(6) of the Planning Act (Cap. 232).
[30/2003]
(6) Where by reason of any notification made by the Minister under section 21(6) of the Planning Act —
(a) the strata subdivision of any building or class of buildings as specified in that notification is authorised; and
(b) the approval by the competent authority of a strata subdivision plan for that building or class of buildings is not required under the Planning Act,
then for the purposes of this Act, any reference to a subdivision plan issued or approved by the competent authority shall, where applicable, be construed to mean a reference to building plans approved by the relevant authority —
(i) which are endorsed with a certificate by a surveyor who is registered under the Land Surveyors Act (Cap. 156) and has in force a practising certificate issued under that Act certifying that the boundaries of all the strata lots which he has delineated on the approved building plans have been endorsed by the proprietor of the development to be correct and in accordance with what was sold or agreed to be sold by the proprietor; and
(ii) which contain such other certifications and particulars as may be required by the Registrar or the Chief Surveyor.