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Over-riding interests

Cap. 194, s. 31 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Subject to sub-section (2), unless the contrary is expressed in the register, all registered land shall be subject to such of the following over-riding interests as may for the time being subsist and affect it, without their being noted on the (a) rights of way, rights of water and any easement or profit subsisting at the time of first registration under this Act; (b) natural rights of light, air, water and support; (c) rights of compulsory acquisition, resumption, entry, search, user or limitation of user conferred by any other law; (d) leases or agreements for leases for a term less than two years, and periodic tenancies within the meaning of section 2; (e) any unpaid moneys which, without reference to registration under this Act, are expressly declared by any law to be charged upon land; (f) rights acquired or in the process of being acquired by virtue of any law relating to limitation or prescription; (g) the rights of a person in actual occupation of land or in receipt of the rents and profits 30 thereof except where inquiry is made of such person and the rights are not disclosed; or (h) electric supply lines, telephone and telegraph lines or poles, pipelines, aqueducts, canals, weirs and dams erected, constructed or laid in pursuance or by virtue of any power conferred by any law. (2) The Registrar may direct registration of any of the liabilities, rights and interests hereinbefore defined in such manner as he thinks fit.
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Over-riding interests — Cap. 194 s. 31 · Belize Law