General
A particular type of lease that is occasionally submitted for registration in the land register is a sporting lease (also referred to as a shooting lease).
Unlike salmon fishings, sporting or shooting rights are not a type of separate legal tenement, and therefore cannot be held in separate ownership from the plot of land over which they are exercisable. They can, however, be leased by the owner of the plot of land to another party. Provided a lease of sporting rights is a long lease that meets the general requirements, it is registrable in the land register.
In a change from the legal position under the 1979 Act, when sporting leases were only registrable when the owner's title was already registered, under the 2012 Act a sporting lease can be submitted for registration whether the owner's title to the plot of land it registered or not. As with other leases, when the owner's title to the land is not registered, an application to register a sporting lease will trigger Automatic Plot Registration (APR).