The Gazette 1992

SEPTEMBER 1992

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Automat ing the Regi str ies

by John Furlong, Solicitor

The Land Registry and its sister office the Registry of Deeds which both come under the statutory control of the Registrar of Deeds and Titles, are engaged in an extensive programme of computerisation. This year, the Land Registry marks its one hundredth anniversary as the statutory authority maintaining the registration of title system and at present processing over 230,000 applications per year. These comprise approximately 85,000 applications for registration as well as requests for copy documents and certificates. An average of 25,000 new land titles are added to the registration system annually. The Land Registry at present maintains a register of over 1.4m folios which document titles throughout the State by reference to description, ownership and rights or changes affecting the particular title. The Registry of Deeds which dates from 1707 maintains registers of all Acts affecting land titles which are not registered in the Land Registry. This system is based on the filing of relevant extracts of deeds and conveyances and the provision of an extensive facility for public inspection and searching of the registers and various indices. The

All of the titles for the county of Dublin are now stored on computer

on a case tracking procedure which records details of each application lodged including name of applicant, folio number, date of lodgement, solicitor, etc. The progress of the case is then recorded on the system allowing for immediate enquiry and updating on any of the stored detail. Allied to this, the folio itself is held in computerised format. Any change in the status of an application can be recorded on the computerised folio and on completion of a registration, it is updated using codified text.

abstract database comprises approximately 3m files and the Registry processes approximately 45,000 new registrations each year. In addition it deals with 6,000 vacates and satisfactions per annum. The scale of work and processing operations in both Registries is substantial with a statutory obligation to maintain accurate and true records of applications registered.

Land Registry

The Land Registry commenced computerisation of its folio records in 1982. The present system is based

All of the titles for the county of Dublin are now stored on this

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