Foreign Ownership of Land Register Act 1988
sec.52Application of s 20 to particular persons
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sec.52 Application of s 20 to particular persons
This section applies if— immediately before the commencement, the legal estate of an interest in land was recorded in the records of a registering authority in the name of a person who was not a foreign person under the unamended Act; and on the commencement, the person is a foreign person in relation to the interest. Section 20 applies to the person as if a reference in section 20(2) to the day on which the person becomes a foreign person were a reference to the day on which the person becomes aware the person is a foreign person under the amended Act. s 52 ins 2019 No. 7 s 171 (sec.52-ssec.1) This section applies if— immediately before the commencement, the legal estate of an interest in land was recorded in the records of a registering authority in the name of a person who was not a foreign person under the unamended Act; and on the commencement, the person is a foreign person in relation to the interest. (sec.52-ssec.2) Section 20 applies to the person as if a reference in section 20(2) to the day on which the person becomes a foreign person were a reference to the day on which the person becomes aware the person is a foreign person under the amended Act.
- (a) immediately before the commencement, the legal estate of an interest in land was recorded in the records of a registering authority in the name of a person who was not a foreign person under the unamended Act; and
- (b) on the commencement, the person is a foreign person in relation to the interest.