Registers goes live on Keeper-induced registration consulting

How to use Keeper-induced registration (KIR) to help achieve completion of Scotland's Land Register is the subject of a new consultation by Registers of Scotland. 

KIR is a new power under the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012, which allows the Keeper of the Registers to add titles to the Land Register without an application from the owner. Registers of Scotland has been given the target of achieving the entry of all land in Scotland on to the Land Register by 2024.

A number of pilot projects to establish what type of property KIR could be used for have been carried out by Registers over the last few months. As a result the Keeper has concluded that the type of properties that best lend themselves to KIR are those within "research areas" – areas where Registers has identified the rights and burdens relevant to each property, typically residential housing developments that contain high volumes of properties of a similar nature.

The consultation contains a number of questions as to whether respondents agree with Registers' approach and how KIR can be used going forward. 

Over the next 12 weeks Registers will be actively engaging with stakeholders across a wide variety of sectors to seek further views, and a series of roadshows will be held in November across the country to take feedback on the proposals.

Click here to view the consultation. Responses to the proposals are sought up to 8 January 2016.