Section 181
Procedure prior to registration and issue of qualified title
of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)
(1)
Before the registration and issue of the documents of qualified title under section 180 in respect of any land, the Land
Administrator shall—
(a)
unless it has already been done to his satisfaction, or is in his opinion impracticable, cause the boundaries of the land to be provisionally demarcated on the surface of the ground in accordance with the plan and description by reference to which the approval of the State Authority to its alienation was given;
(b)
prepare a plan of the land for the purpose of its being copied onto the document or documents of qualified title to be prepared in respect thereof;
(c)
in the case of land ultimately to be held under Land Office title, issue, in accordance with sections 177 and 178, qualified title thereto in the form corresponding to Land
Office title;
(ca) cause a requisition for survey to be prepared and sent to the Director of Survey and Mapping;
(d)
in the case of land ultimately to be held under Registry title, send the plan prepared under paragraph (b) to the Registrar, for the purpose of the issue by him, in accordance with the said provisions, of qualified title in the form corresponding to Registry title.
(2)
Where qualified title is issued under this Chapter to any land in respect of which an entry subsisted at the commencement of this Act in any register of approved occupation, the Land
Administrator shall cancel the entry and make a note on the register to the effect that qualified title has been so issued.