Section 79 Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015

Section 79 of the Land Registration Law (LRL) of Lagos State 2015 provides as follows:

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, documents registered under this Law shall be retained in the Land Registry for as long as they support current entries in the relevant register.

(2) All documents not required by this Law to be retained by the Registrar may, be returned to the persons who produced them or their successors in title, and the Registrar may direct the destruction of any document which such persons decline to accept.

(3) The Registrar may also direct the destruction of documents which have been in his possession or custody for five (5) years where they have in the opinion of the Registrar become altogether superseded by entries in the register, or have ceased to have any effect.

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