Cap. 296 Art. 22Effects of registration with guaranteed title.

The registration of any person as proprietor of land with a guaranteed title shall confer on the person so registered an indefeasible title thereto, that is to say, a title not liable to be defeated except as provided in this Act, together with all rights, privileges and appurtenances belonging or appurtenant to the land, subject to the following rights and interests, that is to say -

(a) subject to the encumbrances and other interests, if any, appearing on the register; and

(b) unless the contrary is expressed on the register, subject to such overriding interests, if any, as affect the registered land; and

(c) with regard to land held on emphyteusis, subject to all implied and express covenants, obligations and liabilities incident to the registered land, but free from all other rights and interests whatsoever:

Provided that if the Minister, in virtue of the provisions of article 16, directs that any or all of such rights or overriding interests shall be registered, the provisions of this article shall not apply with regard to those rights or interests which have to be registered but are not so registered. subsisting or capable of arising at the time of the first registration of the land; but, save as aforesaid, shall have the same effect as registration with an absolute title.

(2) Without prejudice to articles 16A and 46, the registrar shall, unless an application for the interruption of prescription or other caution having the same effect has been lodged, convert the title into a guaranteed title on the lapse of ten years from first registration.