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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]
LAGOS STATE LANDS REGISTRATION LAW, 2015
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1. Interpretation
2. Registration
3. Land Registry Divisions
4. Appointment of Officers
5. General Powers of the Registrar
6. Seal of Office
7. Cases in which Registration is Permitted
8. Registration of Grants and Sub-leases of State Land
9. Refusal of Document for Registration
10. Declaration as to Encumbrances
11. Marking of Documents.
12. Land Registry Map.
13. Power of Registrar to require Survey and Amend Boundaries.
14. Combinations and Sub-Divisions.
15. Alteration of Contiguous Parcels of Registered Land.
16. Severability of Registered Interests.
17. Establishment of the Land Information Management System.
18. Land Document to be Registered by LIMS.
19. Registers to be kept in the LIMS.
20. Contents of Register in the LIMS.
21. Forms
22. Searches.
23. Certification of Document on the LIMS
24. Admissibility of Document
25. Licence of User Groups.
26. Power to compel Registration.
27. Interest to be conferred by compulsory Registration.
28. Additional fee for delayed Registration.
29. Priority of Registered Interests.
30. Effect of Non-Registration.
31. Change of Holding by Operation of Law.
32. Powers of dealing with Registered Land
33. Joint Holding.
34. Partitioning
34. Issue of Land Certificates.
35. Production of Certificates on Registration of Disposition.
37. Lost or Destroyed Title Documents.
37. Lost or Destroyed Title Documents.
39. Registration as Evidence of Signatures
40. Transactions Subsequent to this Law.
41. Term of Sub-Leases.
42. Registration of Sub-Leases
43. Sub-Lease on Mortgaged Land.
44. Reversionary Sub-Leases
45. Variation and Extension of Sub-Leases.
46. Substitution of Sub-Leases.
47. Surrender of Sub-Leases.
48. Determination of Sub-Leases.
49. Effect of Mortgage.
49. Effect of Mortgage.
51. Consolidation of Mortgage.
52. Mortgage by Companies or Partnerships.
53. Charge.
54. Effect of Charge when Registered.
55. Discharge of a Mortgage.
56. Power of Attorney.
57. Power of Attorney not Registrable without Governor’s Consent
58. Power to Register Judgment
59. Effect of Registration of Judgement
60. Cancellation of registration of Judgement.
61. Sale in Execution
62. Mode of Transfer.
62. Mode of Transfer.
64. Restrictions.
65. Rights of the Holder
66. Overriding interest
67. Restrictive Covenants.
68. Release of Restrictive Covenants.
69. Caveats and Cautions on Registrable Documents Generally.
70. Caveator Entitled to Notice of Proposed Registration of Land.
71. Removal of Caveat
72. Renewal of Caveat.
73. Other Prohibitions on Registration.
74. Forms of Documents.
75. Documents to include Endorsements.
76. Execution of Documents.
77. Documents to be Stamped, Stamp Duties Law, Cap S10 2003 LLS.
78. Translation of Documents in Foreign Language.
79. Return or Disposal of Document.
80. Transmission on Death.
81. Effect of Transmission on Death.
82. Registration by Personal Representatives.
83. Application for Registration on Death of Holder.
84. Effect of Transmission on Bankruptcy.
85. Effect of Notice of Liquidation.
86. Registration of Expropriation.
87. Trust not to be entered on Register.
88. Restriction on Actions of a Trustee.
89. Appointment of Family Representatives.
90. Removal and Replacement of a Family Representative.
91. Effect of Registration of Family Representatives.
92. Disposition by Family Representatives.
93. Persons under Disability and Registered Land.
94. Persons under Disability and Others Acting as Agents.
95. Representation of Infants and Lunatics by Guardian or Committee.
96. Alterations of Sub-Lease or Mortgage.
97. Amendment to Register.
98. Corrections of Errors in Register.
99. Rectification of the Register.
100. Extinction of Registered Title Under Limitation Law.
101. Survey.
102. Evidence of Title.
103. Power of Chief Judge to make Rules.
105. Enforcement of Orders of the Registrar
106. Appeals to Court.
107. Effect of Appeal on Registered Dealing.
108. Registers Deemed to be in Legal Custody and Admissible in Evidence.
109. Copies of Entries in Registers.
110. Production of Documents.
111. Notice of Unregistered Interest
112. Adverse Possession and Prescription.
113. Fees
114. Service of Notices
115. Hearings and Opportunity of being Heard.
116. Applicable Rules
117. Indemnity of Officers
118. Payment of Rates
119. Offences
120. Power to make Regulations.
121. Savings.
122. Repeals.
123. Citation and Commencement
LAGOS STATE LANDS REGISTRATION LAW NO. 1 LAWS OF LAGOS STATE OF NIGERIA
A law to make provisions for the registration of title to land in Lagos State and for connected purposes
[COMMENCEMENT] (21st January 2015)
1. Registration of Market Association
From the commencement of this Law, every market association in any market in the State must be registered in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
2. Mode of Registration
(1) A market association applying for registration under this Law may be formed on the basis of commodities listed in Schedule 2 to this Law.
(2) The Commissioner may by an Order published in the Gazette amend, vary or add to the Schedule to this Law.
[AS AMENDED IN 1986]
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