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78: Registrar-General of Land must record entry on record of title when certificate is lodged under section 77
or “When someone brings a special paper, the person in charge of land records must write a note on the land's official papers.”

You could also call this:

“When a note is made on land records, you can't sell or rent parts of the land separately.”

When an entry is recorded on the records of title for specific allotments, as mentioned in section 78(1), it affects how you can transfer or lease those allotments. You can’t transfer or lease any of these allotments by itself. Instead, you must transfer or lease it together with the other specified allotments. This rule ensures that the allotments stay together and aren’t separated when ownership changes or when someone wants to rent them.

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Next up: 80: Records of title for 2 or more allotments subject to registered instrument

or “When multiple pieces of land have special rules, those rules apply to all the land together.”

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79Effect of entry recorded on record of title

  1. If an entry referred to in section 78(1) is recorded on the records of title for the specified allotments, none of those allotments may be transferred or leased except in conjunction with the specified other or others of those allotments.

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    • Section 79 heading: amended, on , by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).
    • Section 79: amended, on , by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).