Land Titles Act - Singapore Statutes Online

Land Titles Act

Status:

Revised Edition
published on 30 Mar 1987

Land Titles Act (CHAPTER 157)

Land Titles Act

(CHAPTER 157)

(Original Enactment: Act 21 of 1956)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act which makes provision for the registration of titles to land.

[24th March 1959: Part I 24th March 1959; Parts II to XVIII, except section 125: 1st December 1960;

1st December 1970: section 125 ]

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Land Titles Act.

Division into Parts

2. This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:

Part I

...

sections

1-4

Part II

...

sections

5-7

Part III

Division 1

...

sections

8-20

Division 2

...

sections

21-27

Part IV

...

sections

28-44

Part V

Division 1

...

sections

45-49

Division 2

...

section

Part VI

...

sections

51-62

Part VII

...

sections

63-67

Part VIII

Division 1

...

sections

68-80

Division 2

...

sections

81-85

Part IX

...

sections

86-93

Part X

...

sections

94-106

Part XI

...

sections

107-114

Part XII

...

sections

115-130

Part XIII

...

sections

131-137

Part XIV

...

sections

138-141

Part XV

...

sections

142-145

Part XVI

...

sections

146-150

Part XVII

...

sections

151-160

Part XVIII

...

sections

161-164

Part XIX

...

sections

165-173.

Reconciliation with existing laws

3.—(1) Except as hereinafter provided, all Acts, regulations, rules, and other laws, and all practices, relating to estates and interests in land and operative at the commencement of this Act, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act in their application to registered land, are hereby repealed.

(2) Nothing in this Act affects 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] does not apply to registered land.

(4) This Act binds the Government.

Interpretation

4. In the interpretation of this Act and of any rules or regulations made thereunder, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires —

“assurance fund” means the assurance fund constituted under section 134;

“caveatee” means the proprietor or other owner of land described in a caveat and to whom notice of the caveat is required to be given;

“caveator” means the person by whom or on whose behalf a caveat is lodged;

“Court” means the High Court;

“duplicate”, in relation to the land-register, includes any authorised form of duplication or reproduction;

“executor” means the executor to whom probate has been granted, and includes an executor by right of representation;

“interest”, in relation to land, means any interest in land recognised as such by law, and includes an estate in land;

“land” means the surface of any defined parcel of the earth, and all substances thereunder, and so much of the column of air above the surface as is reasonably necessary for the proprietor’s use and enjoyment, and includes any estate or interest in land and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto. Subject to any provision to the contrary the proprietorship of land includes natural rights to air, light, water and support and the right of access to any highway on which the land abuts;

“purchaser” means a person who in good faith and for valuable consideration acquires an interest in land, and includes a mortgagee, chargee and lessee; “purchase” has a meaning corresponding with that of “purchaser”;

“registered land” means land which has been brought under the provisions of this Act by being included in a folio of the land-register;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Titles appointed pursuant to this Act.

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