The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005

Registration (Northern Ireland) of such orders

154.—(1) A person applying for a property freezing order or an interim receiving order must be treated for the purposes of section 66 of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(1) (cautions) as a person interested in relation to any registered land to which—

(a) the application relates, or

(b) a property freezing order or an interim receiving order made in pursuance of the application relates.

(2) Upon being served with a copy of a property freezing order, the Registrar must, in respect of any registered land to which a property freezing order or an application for a property freezing order relates, make an entry inhibiting any dealing with the land without the consent of the High Court.

(3) Upon being served with a copy of an interim receiving order, the Registrar must, in respect of any registered land to which an interim receiving order or an application for an interim receiving order relates, make an entry inhibiting any dealing with the land without the consent of the High Court.

(4) Subsections (2) and (4) of section 67 of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (inhibitions) apply to an entry made under paragraph (2) or (3) as they apply to an entry made on the application of any person interested in the registered land under subsection (1) of that section.

(5) Where a property freezing order or an interim receiving order has been protected by an entry registered under the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 or the Registration of Deeds Acts, an order setting aside the property freezing order or interim receiving order may require that entry to be vacated.

(6) In this article—

“Registrar” and “entry” have the same meanings as in the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970; and

“Registration of Deeds Acts” has the meaning given by section 46(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2).

(1)

1970 c. 18 (N.I.).

(2)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.).