Registration of Trusts and Settlements

The Conveyancing Committee receives many queries from practitioners indicating uncertainty about the procedures and forms necessary to register trusts and settlements in the Land Registry. The committee has taken the matter up with the Property Registration Authority (PRA). With thanks to the PRA for giving permission to re-publish their flowcharts, and acknowledging the work of the staff of the PRA’s Training and Development Unit in producing them, the Conveyancing Committee would like to draw the attention of the profession to the two flowcharts now published.

The PRA has confirmed that these charts are accessible on their website www.prai.ie, in the Practice Direction on Trusts of Lands. That practice direction was updated to include these flowcharts. The ‘Legal Practices and Procedures’ link on the home page will bring practitioners into the ‘Practice Directions’ and ‘Legal Office Notices’. 

See the flowcharts here.