Conversion of provisional into absolute title

(1) Any proprietor registered with a provisional title or any interested person may at any time apply to the Registrar to be registered or to have the proprietor registered, as the case may be, with an absolute title. (2) If the applicant satisfies the Registrar that– (a) the qualification to which the provisional title was subject has ceased to be of effect; or (b) a period of time has elapsed since the date of first registration with a provisional title, which when added to the period prior to first registration during which the proprietor shall be considered to have been in possession exceeds twelve years and there is no longer any effective qualification to which the provisional title is subject, the Registrar shall make an order for the registration of the proprietor with absolute title after such advertisement as the Registrar may think fit. (3) On the making of any such order the Registrar shall substitute in the register, the words “absolute title” for the words 31 “provisional title” and the title of the proprietor shall thereupon become absolute.