Mapping Leases

General

Under section 3(1) of the 2012 Act, the Keeper must make up and maintain a title sheet for each registered plot of land, and a cadastral unit for that plot of land must be shown on the cadastral map. Section 3(2) permits the Keeper to also make up and maintain a title sheet for a registered lease.

A registered lease, however, is not allocated its own cadastral unit; instead, the title sheet for the lease (the tenant's interest) will refer to the leased subjects being all or part of the cadastral unit created for the plot of land (the landlord's interest). 

The landlord's title becomes subject to the lease. Where the land being leased is not already registered, a new cadastral unit and title sheet will be created for the plot of land (in other words, the landlord's interest), and this will be subject to the lease. This process of registering the landlord's interest when a lease is submitted for registration is known an Automatic Plot Registration, or APR. Where the landlord's title was previously registered under the 1979 Act, it will be updated to the 2012 Act style and a cadastral unit set up.