Section 169
Costs of issuing title in continuation to land as a whole
of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)
(1)
The fees chargeable in connection with the issue of title in continuation under this Chapter to any land as a whole shall be payable—
(a)
where it is issued on the application of any person or body under paragraph 166(1)(d), by the applicant;
(b)
in any other case, by the proprietor.
(2)
In a case falling within paragraph (1)(a), the said fees shall be paid before title in continuation is issued; and in any other case they shall, if not sooner paid, be added to, and deemed for all the purposes of this Act to form part of, the rent next due in respect of the land.
(3)
Where title in continuation has been issued by reason of the failure of any chargee or lienholder to produce the issue document of title to the land, or by reason of the improper or wrongful withholding of that document by any other person or body, the proprietor shall be entitled to recover any fees paid by him under this section from that chargee, lienholder or other person or body and, in the case of a chargee or lienholder, may do so by deducting the amount thereof from any payments subsequently falling due under the charge or lien.