Research Areas for Legal Officers

New Area Preparation normally began one year prior to an area becoming operational in the Land Register.

The subjects covered by each RA are mapped so that any applications for registration of subjects within that area are identified at the provisional ident stage of registration, i.e. at the beginning of the process. Land Register applications are divided into two distinct categories, i.e. RA casework and non-RA casework. It is important, therefore, that RA casework is identified as soon as possible in the registration process.

Not all common burdens referred to in an RA are necessarily appropriate to all individual titles within that area. For that reason, the common burdens prepared for RAs also contain advice on their use. The advice is accessed from the burdens section of the LRS. The instructions should be followed and any entries not affecting the property should be deleted. Generally, the only deed that will need to be added to the burdens section will be the breakaway, if it contains subsisting burdens. If one of the common deeds referred to for burdens has not been examined by NAP, the case should be forwarded to the designated officer for that county who is responsible for any NAP/RA amendments. Likewise, should you spot an error in an entry, this should be amended by the designated officer.

Any common burdens investigated by NAP are automatically stored on the LRS as part of the Common Deeds Index and are available to all settlers for use where appropriate

RA details will already be imported into the burdens section. To pick up any amendments made since the application was created, you must delete and re-import the RA.

Legal Instruction, RA comment and Element note fields