Section 3 Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015

Section 3 of the Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015 provides as follows:

(1) The Governor shall create Land Registry divisions in the State.

(2) The Governor may order the publication of boundaries demarcating any Land Registry division in the Gazette and such an order may be amended for the purpose of
a) constituting any new Land Registry division or;
(b) adjusting boundaries of any existing Land Registry division.

(3) The Registry shall be the Office for the registration of all documents relating to land.

(4) There shall be maintained in every office of each Land Registry division the following-
(a) a register of all transactions relating to transfer of interest in land in electronic and paper form;
(b) a map to be known as the Land Registry map;
(c) parcel files containing documents and any filed plan which supports existing entries in the register;

(d) a book in the prescribed form to be known as the Day List, in which shall be recorded all applications numbered consecutively in the order in which they are presented to the Land Registry;
(e) a record to be known as the Mutation Record;

(f) an index to be known as the Nominal Index where a record of names of land holders are kept in alphabetical order with the description and any other information in respect of the land parcel as the Registrar may direct; and
(g) a register of Powers of attorney.

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