On the Public Registry

Law of Georgia

on Public Registry

Chapter I – General Provisions

Article 1 – Scope of the Law

1. This Law shall determine the organisational and legal basis for maintaining a public registry, and the rights and duties of a body maintaining the public registry – the Legal Entity under Public Law (LEPL) operating under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia – the National Agency of Public Registry (‘the Agency’).

2. This Law shall not apply to legal relations related to the registration of rights on motorised vehicles.

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 2 – Definition of terms used in the Law

For the purposes of this Law, the terms used herein shall have the following meanings:

a) immovable thing – a parcel of land with or without a building on it, or a building (under construction, completed or demolished), or a building unit (under construction, completed or demolished) or a linear construction;

a¹) building or structure – a construction system or space made of construction materials and products, which is immovably fixed to the ground and surrounded with walls and/or other building envelopes. A building must make a roofed space, while a structure may be roofed or without roofing. For registration purposes, a building or structure may be under construction, completed or demolished.

b) movable thing – any property which, according to the Civil Code of Georgia, is not immovable, except motorised vehicles, or aircrafts and floating crafts;

b¹) economic activity – types of economic activity provided for by the National Classification of Georgia approved by the Legal Entity under Public Law (LEPL) – the National Statistics Office of Georgia;

c) registration object – a movable or immovable thing, or intangible property;

d) linear construction – a communication structure, a motor way, a railroad, all types of pipelines, a tunnel, an aerial ropeway, a power transmission line, a communication line, a funicular, a dam, or a canal;

e) (Deleted – 25.6.2019, 4850);

f) (Deleted – 25.6.2019, 4850);

g) interested person – any natural or legal person, or another organisational establishment or administrative body, whose legitimate interest is directly affected by decisions or actions of the Agency;

h) registration – recording data on the following in respective registries by way of making a registration decision: rights to things and intangible property under this Law, public-law restrictions and tax liens/mortgages, the arising of, changes to and the termination of obligations related to immovable property ownership rights, the abandonment of immovable property ownership rights, changes to the designated purpose and category of agricultural land parcels, the establishment and alteration of the boundaries of forest, the boundaries of the wind break belt (wind break field) and changes thereto, data on the numbering and addresses of geographical features, identification data of subjects or objects of rights to things and immovable property, mandatory registration data on entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entities as defined by the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs and the Civil Code of Georgia, changes to and termination of such data, and the arising of, changes to and the termination of obligations related to the limitation of titles to the shares of partners of limited liability companies or limited partnerships;

i) registration procedure – the activities of the Agency for registration purposes;

j) registration document – a legal act that directly confers the right to request registration under this Law;

k) registration documents – registration and other documents to be submitted to a registration body for registration;

l) coincidence of cadastral data – identity between the cadastral data of an immovable thing (or part thereof) and the cadastral data of an immovable thing (or part thereof) with the registered rights;

m) authorised person – a natural or legal person authorised by the Agency on the basis of an agreement to maintain a public registry and/or to access information, who carries out activities under this Law on his/her/its own responsibility;

n) lawful possessor – an interested person, whose registration document conferring the right to request the registration of an ownership right has been issued, adopted or prepared before the registration of the origination of a seizure or the prohibition of administration of a registration object (however, the registration document must have been issued, adopted or prepared before the entry into force of this Law, or the issuance, adoption and preparation of the document must have been directly provided for by the legislation of Georgia regardless of the seizure or the prohibition of administration of a registration object), as well as a person who is an assignee of the owner of the subject of a public-law restriction under this sub-paragraph;

o) maintenance of public registry – the creation of registries defined by this Law;

p) fee for services rendered by the Agency – a mandatory sum, in the amount defined by an ordinance of the Government of Georgia, payable to the account of the Agency (in cash or non-cash form) for services rendered by the Agency;

q) extract from the Public Registry – an extract from the Registry of Immovable Property Rights, from the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights, from the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities, or from the Register of Economic Activities;

r) notice – information or an application, submitted for registration, about the conferral of a right to a movable thing or intangible property;

s) access to information – ensuring the freedom of viewing and issuance of information and documents retained at the Public Registry or a registration body;

t) numbering – assigning numbers to geographical features, apartment buildings or other objects within the municipality using numerals and/or letters of the Georgian alphabet;

u) geographical feature – autonomous republics, municipalities, administrative units of municipalities, settlements (cities, urban-type settlements (daba), villages) and geographical features within them: zones, micro-regions, blocks, developed territories within the settlement with other integrated or separate geographical features, streets, avenues, alleys, highways, lanes, blind alleys, exits, embankments, esplanades, squares, mini-parks, boulevards, gardens, parks, forest parks, cemeteries, pantheons, buildings and structures, objects of transportation system, land parcels or other objects;

v) assignment of addresses – combination of works to be performed by the Agency for the purposes of identifying locations of geographical features and existed addresses;

w) address – means to localise geographical features, apartments or other objects within the space, a unique textual record denoting the location thereof, which shall be created by the letters of the Georgian alphabet and numerals, and which shall contain information on the name and/or numeration of the geographical feature;

x) (Deleted – 15.12.2023, No 4016);

y) person performing cadastral planning/survey works – a natural person certified by an entity accredited in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of Georgia by the Legal Entity under Public Law – the Unified National Body of Accreditation – the Accreditation Centre, who prepares a cadastral planning/survey drawing in compliance with the rule provided for by this Law;

[z) surveyor of the Agency – a person provided for by subparagraph y) of this article, who is employed by the Agency and who performs topographic, geodesic and cadastral works, including internal planning/survey works of a building or structure and of a unit of a building or structure. (Shall become effective from 1 June 2026)]

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 4413 of 11 March 2011 – website, 17.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Law of Georgia No 4850 of 25 June 2019 – website, 2.7.2019

Law of Georgia No 5962 of 22 May 2020 – website, 28.5.2020

Law of Georgia No 974 of 2 November 2021 – website, 5.11.2021

Law of Georgia No 4016 of 15 December 2023 – website, 28.12.2023

Law of Georgia No 1329 of 17 December 2025 – website, 22.12.2025

Article 3 – System of registration bodies and their powers

1. Public registry shall be maintained and the access to information shall be provided by the Agency, which is a legal entity under public law established in accordance with the law and a registration body exercising public-law powers defined under this Law.

1¹. The Agency shall be administered by the Chairperson to be appointed to and dismissed from the post by the Minister of Justice of Georgia. Powers and structure of the Agency shall be defined by this Law and the Statute of the Agency approved by the Minister of Justice of Georgia.

2. The functions of the Agency shall be as follows:

a) the registration;

b) the provision of access to information;

[b¹) the performance of topographic, geodesic and cadastral works;

b²) the provision of cartographic, photogrammetric and geoinformational services;

b³) the supervision of topographic, geodesic, cadastral, cartographic and photogrammetric works; (Shall become effective from 1 June 2026)]

c) the development of methodological and operational guidelines for the Agency’s territorial registration offices and authorised persons;

d) the provision of individual services under the tax legislation of Georgia for tax payers on the basis of an agreement between a tax authority and the Agency;

e) the assignment of addresses to and numbering of geographical features in the territory of Georgia and recording of data about their addresses;

e¹) the coordination and monitoring of creation, operation and development of the infrastructure of the national spatial data, and the exercise of other powers defined by the Law of Georgia on the Infrastructure of the National Spatial Data;

f) the registration of cadastral data of an unregistered immovable property in accordance with the procedure and conditions determined by the Instruction on Public Registry (‘the Instruction’) approved by the Minister of Justice of Georgia;

f¹) the review of administrative offence cases provided for by the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs and Articles 177 ^{​ 16}   and 177 ^{​ 17}  of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia, and the adoption of the related legal acts and their enforcement;

g) the exercise of other powers provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

3. The Agency shall exercise its powers directly or through its territorial registration offices and authorised persons.

3¹. The powers of the Agency under the legislation of Georgia may be exercised by an administrative body on the basis of an agreement concluded with the Agency or a legal act issued by the Minister of Justice of Georgia.

4. The Agency shall use the software and automated management tools to maintain public registry and to provide access to information.

5. The registration on the basis of documents received by means of an electronic document management system for tax liens/mortgages and public-law restrictions imposed by judicial or other administrative bodies may be performed on the basis of a memorandum between the Agency and the court or an appropriate administrative body.

6. A registration body and its employees shall not be responsible for the authenticity of the registration documents submitted. They shall be responsible only for the mutual compliance of the registered data and the registration or other documents retained with them and for their safety.

6¹. A registration body may, in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of Georgia, verify, change, declare void or invalidate false or mutually inconsistent data registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights, and ensure the engagement of all interested persons in the administrative procedures initiated for this purpose.

6². A registration body may verify the correctness of data of cadastral planning/survey drawing submitted to the registry and the consistency of these data with those registered in the Public Registry.

7. A registration body may certify copies of the legal acts or other documents it has issued, and copies of registration and other documents retained by it if the content of the original document and its copy correspond to each other.

8. A copy of a document certified by a registration body shall be legally valid and shall verify its identity to the original document.

9. The procedure and conditions for using automated management tools, and the procedure and conditions for certifying documents shall be defined by the Instruction.

[9¹. Terms for performing topographic, geodesic and cadastral planning/survey works, providing cartographic, photogrammetric and geoinformational services, and for supervising topographic, geodesic, cadastral, cartographic and photogrammetric works by the Agency shall be defined under the Instruction. (Shall become effective from 1 June 2026)]

10. The rates of the fee for services provided by the Agency, and the time limits for providing services, and the procedure and conditions for paying the fees, exempting from payment and refunding the fees paid shall be defined by an ordinance of the Government of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No 3888 of 7 December 2010 – LHG I, No 67, 9.12.2010, Art. 416

Law of Georgia No 4208 of 22 February 2011 – website, 10.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 5036 of 27 April 2016 – website, 13.5.2016

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 891 of 2 August 2021 – website, 4.8.2021

Law of Georgia No 3706 of 16 November 2023 – website, 5.12.2023

Law of Georgia No 1329 of 17 December 2025 – website, 22.12.2025

Article 4 – Structure of the Public Registry

1. The Public Registry is a collection of the Registry of Immovable Property Rights, the Registry of Public-law Restrictions, the Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages, the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights, the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities, the Address Registry, and the Register of Economic Activities.

2. The Registry of Immovable Property Rights is a collection of data on immovable property rights, on obligations related to immovable property ownership rights, and changes to and the termination of such rights or obligations, and on the origination of the abandonment of immovable property ownership rights.

3. The Registry of Public-law Restrictions is a collection of data on seizures of things and intangible property and on restrictions and prohibitions of administration of rights to things and intangible property, imposed by judicial or other administrative bodies under the procedure defined by law, and data on the origination of, changes to and the termination of prohibitions on registration.

4. The Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages is a collection of data on the conferral, changes to and the termination of rights to tax liens/mortgages on things (except for motorised vehicles) and intangible property.

5. The Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights is a collection of data on the registration of rights to movable things and intangible property, on changes to and the termination of registered rights.

6. The Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities is a collection of data on compulsory registration data of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entities as defined under the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs and the Civil Code of Georgia, and on changes to and the termination of these compulsory registration data.

7. The Address Registry is a collection of data on the addresses of geographical features existed in the territory of Georgia.

8. The Register of Economic Activities is a collection of data on the registered economic activities, changes made therein and on their termination, and on the place (address) of economic activity.

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Article 5 – Presumption of the authenticity of data registered in the Public Registry

Data registered in the Public Registry shall be subject to the presumption of authenticity until they are declared invalid or null and void under the procedure determined by the legislation of Georgia.

Article 6 – Access to information

1. The data registered in the Public Registry and the documentation retained at the registration body shall be public and available to any person for viewing, except as determined by the legislation of Georgia.

2. The original copy of a document retained at the registration body, which was submitted to the Public Registry for registration or other purposes and the registration body has made a decision to suspend the registration procedure, to dismiss the application or to terminate the registration procedure, may be requested by the applicant or a person duly authorised by him/her, or, in cases determined by the legislation of Georgia, by any other person or an administrative body on the basis of an appropriate judicial act.

3. The request for documents retained at a registration body, and for the original or a copy of any document prepared by the registration body as a result of registration shall not suspend the validity of the registered data or preclude the issuance of an extract from the Public Registry or of any other document or information on the basis of the registered data.

4. The procedure and conditions for viewing information and documents retained at a registration body, and for requesting their originals or copies shall be defined by the Instruction.

5. The restrictions defined by paragraph 2 of this article shall not apply to cases when, for the purpose of organisation of the archival material by the Agency, documents are returned to the applicant or to a person duly authorised by him/her, in cases determined by an order of the Chairperson of the Agency.

Article 6¹ – Procedure for making a decision on the access to information

1. When issuance of information is requested, a registration body shall define a 30-day period for an interested person to submit additional information or documents if:

a) the content of the request is not clear or the requested information cannot be identified;

b) the document or information defined by this Law and the legislation of Georgia is not attached to the application;

c) there are other circumstances defined by the legislation of Georgia.

2. After an interested person has applied for information and a period for submitting additional information or document is defined for him/her, running of the period for reviewing the application shall be deemed suspended. A respective decision of a court or another authorised person/body shall also be considered as a ground for suspending the running of the period for reviewing the application. The running of the period shall be resumed only after the requested information or document is submitted and/or the ground for suspending the running of the period for reviewing the application is removed.

3. If an interested person fails to submit the information or document requested during the period of suspension of the period for reviewing the information  or document defined by paragraph 1 of this article, the application shall be dismissed without prejudice.

4. A ground for refusing to issue information shall be defined by this Law, the Instruction and the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.

5. (Deleted – 20.12.2011, No 5565).

6. When refusing to issue information, or defining the period for submitting additional information or document, or resuming the running of the period for reviewing an application, or dismissing an application for issuing information without prejudice, the registration body shall make a respective decision.

7. The decision of a registration body on refusing to issue information, or defining the period for submitting additional information or document, or resuming the running of the period for reviewing an application, or dismissing an application for issuing information without prejudice shall be appealed under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 7 – General principles for maintaining and accessing public registry

1. The Agency shall be authorised to store and issue an electronic copy of any document prepared by or retained at the Agency.

2. (Deleted – 24.4.2017, No 646).

3. The Agency shall be authorised to accept, issue or give out any information and/or document using the integrated automated management tools. In such a case, an application and the attached data may be submitted, and a document may be given out though any territorial registration office or authorised person.

4. The data may be entered in a document issued or given out by the Agency using the mechanical and/or electronic means.

Law of Georgia No 646 of 24 April 2017 – website, 10.5.2017

Article 8 – Registration procedure and its initialisation

1. A registration procedure shall be initiated on the basis of an application or a decision made by an authorised body.

2. Registration documents and information defined by the Instruction must be attached to the application.

2¹. (Deleted – 20.2.2011, No 4208).

3. A registration body may, in a specific case, additionally request submission of any document or information related to the registration procedure that are necessary for making the decision on the subject of the application.

Law of Georgia No 2800 of 23 March 2010 – LHG I, No 14, 30.3.2010, Art. 86

Law of Georgia No 3966 of 10 December 2010 – LHG I, No 74, 24.12.2010, Art. 447

Law of Georgia No 4208 of 22 February 2011 – website, 10.3.2011

Article 9 – General principles of registration

1. Registration shall be performed directly on the basis of registration or other documents, and of their duly prepared electronic copies.

2. A registration body shall confirm submission of applications by registering their electronic or paper versions in a registration book and by assigning registration numbers to them. Payment of a registration fee shall be a precondition for the registration of an application submitted using automated management tools.

3. As a result of registration, a registration body shall prepare an extract, while in the case of registration of ownership rights to immovable things with unregistered ownership rights in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights and in the case of registration of changes to cadastral data, it shall additionally prepare a cadastral plan. This procedure shall not apply to the registration of public-law restrictions and tax liens/mortgages and to the registration of ownership rights to movable things and intangible property.

Law of Georgia No 2980 of 27 April 2010 – LHG I, No 24, 10.5.2010, Art. 146

Article 10 – Extract from the Public Registry

1. An extract from the Registry of Immovable Property Rights shall be prepared on the basis of the integrated data bank of the Registry of Immovable Property Rights, the Registry of Public-law Restrictions and the Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages and shall contain data on immovable things, which are registered in the Registries and are valid at the moment of preparation of the extract.

2. An extract from the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights shall be prepared on the basis of the integrated data bank of the Registry of Movable Property Rights, the Registry of Public-law Restrictions and the Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages and shall contain data on movable things and intangible property, which are registered in the Registries and are valid at the moment of preparation of the extract.

2¹. An extract from the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities shall be prepared on the basis of the integrated data bank of the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities, the Registry of Public-law Restrictions and the Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages, the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights and the Registry of Debtors, and shall contain valid data on the subject registered in these registries. Where a limited liability company or a limited partnership is concerned, an extract must also contain information on obligations related to the limitation of titles to the shares of partners. Where so provided for by Article 20¹(2) of this Law, an extract from the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities must also contain information about the status of a special plaintiff.

2². An extract from the Register of Economic Activities shall be prepared on the basis of the Register of Economic Activities and the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities, and shall contain the valid data of an entity registered in these Registries.

2³. An extract from the Register of Economic Activities shall be prepared in the Georgian language, and if requested by an interested person, it shall also be prepared in the English language. When the extract is prepared in the English language, it must also be prepared in the Georgian language.

3. An extract from the Public Registry shall be given out to any person and shall be prepared in parallel with a decision on registration, and if the data are registered, the extract shall be given out upon payment of an appropriate fee.

4. When a transaction or another legal action is performed with regard to an immovable thing, except for establishing an inheritance right, the right of an interested person to an immovable thing shall be established only by an extract from the Public Registry.

5. The content and the form of an extract from the Public Registry shall be defined by the Instruction.

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Law of Georgia No 6840 of 14 July 2020 – website, 28.7.2020

Law of Georgia No 891 of 2 August 2021 – website, 4.8.2021

Chapter II – Registry of Immovable Property Rights

Article 11 – Rights and obligations subject to registration in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights

1. The following shall be registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights:

a) property;

b) superficies, and mortgage on rights of superficies;

c) usufruct;

d) easement;

e) mortgage;

f) rent, and sub-rent;

g) lease, and sublease;

h) lending;

i) leasing;

j) rights under public law related to use and possession;

k) liabilities related to the immovable property ownership right, including the privatisation terms for an immovable property disposed of by the state, an autonomous republic and/or a municipality;

l) pre-emptive right to acquire by state and municipal bodies;

m) right of pre-emption.

2. In addition to the data on registered rights, identification data of subjects and objects of law, including cadastral data of an immovable thing shall also be entered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights.

3. The rights provided for by paragraph 1(b-k) of this article may only be registered if the immovable property ownership right is registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights.

4. The data registered on the rights provided for by paragraph 1(b-j) of this article, and on the privatisation terms for an immovable property disposed of by the state, an autonomous republic and/or a municipality, shall be transferred without modification to a new owner, except as provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

4¹. The limited property right to immovable things shall be registered in parallel with a respective limitation/liability.

4². For immovable things or parts thereof with unregistered ownership rights on which information regarding the cadastral data has been registered in the registration body, upon registration of ownership rights, appropriate cadastral data on respective immovable things shall be registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights in accordance with the documentation submitted by the interested person and provided for by the Instruction.

5. For origination of the rights provided for by paragraph 1(a-e) of this article, and also for origination of the rights provided for by paragraph 1(f-i) and (k) of this article based on the transactions made for more than one year with the participation of legal entities under private law (including transactions with a total period of validity exceeding one year), they must be registered in the Public Registry.

6. The procedure for registering mortgage certificates shall be defined by the Instruction.

Law of Georgia No 2980 of 27 April 2010 – LHG I, No 24, 10.5.2010, Art. 146

Law of Georgia No 3888 of 7 December 2010 – LHG I, No 67, 9.12.2010, Art. 416

Law of Georgia No 4208 of 22 February 2011 – website, 10.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 3223 of 20 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018

Law of Georgia No 4850 of 25 June 2019 – website, 2.7.2019

Law of Georgia No 4016 of 15 December 2023 – website, 28.12.2023

Article 11¹ – Responsibility for the identification of immovable things and for the accuracy of cadastral planning/survey drawings

1. An owner/lawful possessor of an immovable thing shall be responsible for the identification of the location and boundaries of the immovable thing in order to prepare a cadastral planning/survey drawing.

2. A person performing cadastral planning/survey works shall be responsible for proper performance of cadastral planning/survey works and for the accuracy of data of the cadastral planning/survey drawing.

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Article 11² – Obligation of a person performing planning/survey works

1. A person performing cadastral planning/survey works shall prepare a cadastral survey/ planning drawing to be submitted to the Public Registry for the registration of rights/liabilities in accordance with the procedure for performing and documenting the cadastral planning/survey work for the land parcel defined by an Ordinance of the Government of Georgia, which also defines the procedure for suspending and cancelling the validity of a certificate of a person performing cadastral planning/survey works for the performance of the cadastral planning/survey work in breach of the requirements of the legislation of Georgia.

2. The procedure for performing and documenting the internal survey work for a building or structure and for a unit of a building or structure shall be approved by an ordinance of the Government of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 4016 of 15 December 2023 – website, 28.12.2023

Article 11³ – Registration of the right to agricultural land parcels

1. Registration of the right to an agricultural land parcel shall be carried out in accordance with this Law, considering the requirements defined by the Organic Law of Georgia on Agricultural Land Ownership and by other legislative and subordinate normative acts of Georgia.

2. Upon registration of the right of ownership to an agricultural land parcel of a legal entity under private law registered in Georgia, if the data of a partner (partners) of this legal entity are not identified by the records of the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities or are incomplete, the duly prepared documentation about partners must be submitted to the registration body to identify the dominant partner. This obligation shall also apply to the registration of the right to mortgage to an agricultural land parcel or of the liability related to the right of ownership to the agricultural land parcel, which allows for the origination of the right of ownership to this land parcel.

3. Upon registration of the right of ownership, the right of mortgage or the liability related to the right of ownership to an agricultural land parcel, which allows for the origination of the right of ownership to the land parcel, of an organisational entity that is not a legal person, the duly prepared documentation about members of the organisational entity must be submitted to the registration body.

4. The responsibility for the accuracy of the data submitted to the registration body in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of this article shall be imposed on a person who compiled them. Submission of incorrect information may become the grounds for cancelling the registration of the right of ownership.

5. Upon registration of the right to an agricultural land parcel of a legal entity under private law registered in Georgia, if there are multiple partners that, in their turn, are legal entities under private law registered in Georgia (irrespective of their legal form), the applicant may be required to submit information regarding the dominant partner, which is defined by the Instruction.

6. The obligation to submit the data provided for by this article shall not be imposed on a financial institution defined by the legislation of Georgia and on an international financial institution defined by an ordinance of the Government of Georgia if the registration of the right to an agricultural land parcel is carried out within the performance by the financial institution and the international financial institution defined by the legislation of Georgia of the activities permitted by the legislation of Georgia (including when a collateral is purchased by the creditor); the aforementioned obligation shall not be imposed either on a legal entity under private law registered in Georgia if the right of ownership to an agricultural land parcel is registered on the basis of an investment plan (agreement).

Law of Georgia No 4850 of 25 June 2019 – website, 2.7.2019

Article 12 – Pre-registration of immovable property rights

1. To ensure the registration of an immovable property right, such a right may be pre-registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights under the procedure determined by this Law on the basis of an agreement signed between the parties.

1¹. Pre-registration of the right to an agricultural land parcel shall be carried out in accordance with this Law, considering the requirements defined by the Organic Law of Georgia on Agricultural Land Ownership and other legislative and subordinate normative acts of Georgia.

2. Pre-registration of an immovable property right shall rule out registration of any other right to this property, or registration of the abandonment of the property right, unless otherwise provided for by agreement of the parties.

3. Pre-registration of an immovable property right shall not rule out registration of a legal successor as an owner of this property.

4. Pre-registration of an immovable property right shall be annulled:

a) upon registration of the right that has been secured by the pre-registration;

b) upon expiry of the time limit if such time limit was set;

c) on the basis of a written agreement between the parties;

d) upon registration of an immovable property right of another person under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia, except for the registration of a legal successor as an owner of this property, and except when such immovable property appears without owner after cancellation of the property right.

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 4850 of 25 June 2019 – website, 2.7.2019

Article 13 – Priority of the registration of rights and the registered rights

1. If registration of several rights to one registration object is requested and these rights exclude one another by their content, only the right or rights submitted for registration earlier than other right or rights shall be registered.

2. If registration of several rights of the same content to one registration object is requested and these rights do not exclude one another, the priority of registration of these rights shall be determined according to the date of their submission for registration.

3. If registration of several rights of various contents to one registration object is requested and these rights do not mutually exclude one another, the priority of registration of these rights shall be determined according to their contents.

4. The priority of registered rights shall be determined according to the time of submission of an application for registration of the right (registration of an application), unless otherwise determined by law.

Article 14 – Registration of abandonment of immovable property ownership rights

1. The abandonment of immovable property ownership rights shall also be registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights.

2. The abandonment of an immovable property ownership right, may only be registered if no other rights, except for the ownership right, are registered in relation to the immovable thing in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights at the moment when the abandonment of the immovable property ownership right was requested.

3. An immovable property ownership right shall be deemed abandoned from the moment of registration of the abandonment of the ownership right in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights.

4. After abandonment of the immovable property ownership right, the ownership right shall pass to the State.

Article 15 – Registration and change of the designated purpose of land parcels and of the category of agricultural land parcels

1. A land parcel shall be registered as either an agricultural or a non-agricultural land parcel. An agricultural land parcel shall be registered as an agricultural land parcel of a respective category according to the document confirming the right. If the document confirming the right does not specify or its content is not sufficient to identify the designated purpose of a land parcel and/or the category of an agricultural land parcel, the registration shall be performed on the basis of the additionally submitted information about the designated purpose of the land parcel and/or the category of the agricultural land parcel or on the basis of the application of an interested person.

2. The following shall be registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights:

a) replacement of the agricultural purpose of a land parcel by the non-agricultural purpose, or replacement of the non-agricultural purpose of a land parcel by the agricultural purpose;

b) change of the category of an agricultural land parcel.

3. The procedure and conditions for the registration of the change of the designated purpose of land parcels and the category of agricultural land parcels, and the time limits for the registration of the change of the designated purpose of land parcels shall be defined by the Instruction.

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 4850 of 25 June 2019 – website, 2.7.2019

Article 15¹ – Registration of the establishment and alteration of forest boundaries; registration of the boundaries of the wind break belt (wind break field) and changes thereto

1. The Agency shall register the establishment of the boundaries of the state forest or private forest on the basis of an appropriate act of the Government of Georgia, and the alteration of forest boundaries shall be registered under the rules determined by paragraphs 3 and 4 of this article.

2. State forest boundaries shall be altered through the adjustment of boundaries.

3. The adjustment of state forest boundaries shall be registered on the basis of an application by the manager of the property under the Law on Georgia on State Property.

4. The forest boundaries may be adjusted on the basis of an application of the owner or the lawful possessor of a land parcel if the registration document, which confers the right to request the registration of the right of ownership to the plot of land, was issued, adopted or prepared before 1 January 2012. The forest boundaries can also be adjusted within the framework of the systematic registration provided for by the Law of Georgia on Improvement of Cadastral Data and Procedure for Systematic and Sporadic Registration of Rights to Plots of Land on the basis of an application of the owner (user) of the respective plot of land if, as a result of the registration procedure, it is confirmed that the plot of land to be registered meets the conditions defined by the legislation of Georgia for the recognition of the right of ownership to a plot of land arbitrarily occupied by a natural person.

5. The registration of the boundaries of the wind break belt (wind break field) and changes thereto shall be carried out by the Agency on the application of the Legal Entity under Public Law operating under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia – the National Agency for Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Monitoring. The consent of the owner of an appropriate plot of land or part thereof must accompany the application. The registration of the wind break belt (wind break field) shall not suspend the registration of any other right or liability to a real thing.

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Law of Georgia No 5962 of 22 May 2020 – website, 28.5.2020

Law of Georgia No 974 of 2 November 2021 – website, 5.11.2021

Law of Georgia No 1101 of 15 December 2021 – website, 24.12.2021

Article 15² – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Article 15³ – Registration of the pre-emptive right to the acquisition by state and municipal bodies

1. Registration of the pre-emptive right to the acquisition by an authorised administrative body shall be carried out by the Agency on the basis of a legal act issued under Article 50 of the Code of the Spatial Planning, Architectural and Construction Activities of Georgia.

2. If the registration of the pre-emptive right to the acquisition exists, when an immovable property owner intends to alienate the property to another person, he/she shall additionally submit to the Agency the document from an administrative body in question evidencing the rejection to enjoy the pre-emptive right to the acquisition, or communicate information to it that the decision of the administrative body to enjoy this right was not communicated to him/her within the agreed time period.

3. If there is no appropriate written document from the administrative body, the Agency shall additionally examine the grounds for exercising the pre-emptive right to the acquisition. If the administrative body responds negatively or fails to respond within 10 working days, the registration of the pre-emptive right to the acquisition shall be cancelled and the property right shall be registered to the name of the purchaser of the right of ownership.

4. The registration of the pre-emptive right to the acquisition, except as provided for by paragraph 3 of this article, shall also be cancelled if an administrative body revokes the administrative act in question or makes a change in it. In this case, the administrative body shall immediately notify the Agency of the cancellation of registration of the pre-emptive right to the acquisition.

Law of Georgia No 3223 of 20 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018

Article 15⁴ – Registration of subdivision of land parcels/merger of land parcels

The Agency shall carry out the registration of subdivision of a land parcel/merger of land parcels on the basis of a project for the subdivision of land parcels/merger of land parcels as agreed upon with an appropriate municipal body. The project must comply with other requirements established by Article 70 of the Code of the Spatial Planning, Architectural and Construction Activities of Georgia, and other legislative and subordinate normative acts of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No 3223 of 20 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018

Article 15⁵ – Registration of the pre-emptive right of a co-owner/lessee to the acquisition

1. Under Article 10 of the Law of Georgia on Defining the Designated Purpose of Land and Sustainable Administration of Agricultural Land, the pre-emptive right to the acquisition shall be registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights on the basis of an application of a co-owner/lessee.

2. An interested person must submit to the Agency a registered letter, by which the notification in question was sent, and a document evidencing the notification delivery, which identifies the date of its delivery, and duly certified appropriate documentation must be submitted if there is an agreement between the parties as to another procedure for the notification delivery.

3. The pre-emptive right of a co-owner/lessee to the acquisition shall be registered for the period specified in the notification in question, which commences on the second day of the notification delivery date, and if the information is published, the period commences on the second day of its publication date. If the exact period cannot be identified by the notification, 15 calendar days shall be considered as such period. Expiry of the period shall cause a decision concerning the registration of the aforementioned right to lose effect.

4. Under Article 10(5) of the Law of Georgia on Defining the Designated Purpose of Land and Sustainable Administration of Agricultural Land, a registration body shall publish information on the appropriate website of the Agency if the documentation submitted by the person in question indicates that the notification has not been served on a person having the pre-emptive right to the acquisition to the registration address in Georgia, and if there is an agreement between the parties as to another procedure for the notification delivery, the documentation submitted indicates that the notification has not been served on the aforementioned person under the agreed procedure. The registration body shall also publish information on the Agency’s website if the registration address of a person having the pre-emptive right to the acquisition cannot be determined or this person cannot be precisely identified by the data in the Public Registry.

5. A registration body shall not be liable for the authenticity and accuracy of the documentation submitted by the interested person in accordance with this article.

Law of Georgia No 4850 of 25 June 2019 – website, 2.7.2019

Article 15⁶ – Procedure for registering the property right on a building or structure or on a unit thereof

1. The property right on a building or structure or on a unit thereof (including on the one under construction) shall be registered on the basis of a document certifying the right and the construction documentation defined by the legislation of Georgia, while upon completion of the construction, the property right shall be registered on the basis of a document certifying the recognition as useful (the entry into service) of the building or structure. The property right on a building or structure or on a unit thereof may also be registered if the building or structure or the unit thereof has been legalised or has been considered as legitimate under the legislation of Georgia.

2. If the property right registration has been required on a building or structure or on a unit thereof but the construction documentation defined by the legislation of Georgia or a document certifying the recognition as useful (the entry into service) of the building or structure, or the act of legalisation has not been submitted for registration, or the building or structure or the unit thereof has not been considered as legitimate under the legislation of Georgia, the property right on such building or structure or the unit thereof shall not be subject to registration. If an applicant is a land parcel owner or he/she has a document certifying his/her ownership right to the land parcel, an information card for the building or structure actually placed on the land parcel shall be issued by the public registry and such building or structure shall not be included in the extract from public registry and on the cadastral plan.

3. The Agency shall, immediately upon the issuance of the information card provided for by paragraph 2 of this article for a building or structure or a unit thereof, communicate the information concerned to an administrative body of a municipality concerned that has the authority to issue a construction permit and/or to a state construction supervision body, and in the case of an entity of special importance, the said information shall be communicated to the Legal Entity under Public Law within the system of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia – the Technical and Construction Supervision Agency.

4. A building or structure may be an individual object of a right or consist of more than one separate object (unit) of a right. Interrelated spaces that are united into one system may be registered as a separate object (unit) of a right in a building or structure.

5. A unit of a building or structure may be alienated to it as to a separate object (unit) of a right, after the property right has been registered in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights.

6. Registration of the division of a building or structure into separate objects (units) of a right/the distribution of spaces of a building or structure shall be a ground for the registration of a change in the registered ownership right to the land parcel concerned. In such a case, the co-ownership right of the co-owners of the separate objects (units) of a right of the building or structure shall be registered on the land parcel. The portion of a separate object (unit) of a right in the land parcel shall be defined in proportion of the space of the separate object (unit) of a right to the total space of the building or structure in question.

7. The registration of the division of a building or structure or a unit thereof into separate objects (units) of a right or their unification into one object of a right, and the registration of a change of the functionality shall be carried out on the basis of the construction documentation, a document certifying the recognition as useful (the entry into service) of a building or structure, the act of legalisation and/or a document certifying the right concerned. If the documents provided for by this paragraph have not been stored at/submitted to the Agency, the registration of the division of the building or structure or the unit thereof into separate objects (units) of a right or their unification into one object of a right, and the registration of the change of the functionality may be carried out on the basis of the project for the division of the building or structure, their unification and the change of the functionality, which has been agreed upon with an administrative body of a municipality concerned that has the authority to issue the construction permit, and in the case of an entity of special importance, the said registration may be carried out on the basis of the aforementioned project that has been agreed upon with the Legal Entity under Public Law within the system of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia – the Technical and Construction Supervision Agency. The project must comply with the requirements established by Articles 70 and 79 of the Code of Georgia on Spatial Planning, Architectural and Construction Activities, and other requirements established by other legislative and subordinate normative acts of Georgia, and in the case of an entity of special importance, the said project must comply with the requirements of Ordinance No 257 of 31 May 2019 of the Government of Georgia on the Procedure for Issuing Construction Permits for Entities of Special Importance (including Radiation or Nuclear Entities) and the Permit Conditions.

8. If registration of the property right is required on a building or structure, or a unit thereof and the functionality of the building or structure cannot be established by the construction documentation, the document certifying the recognition as useful (the entry into service) of the building or structure, the act of legalisation and/or the document certifying the right concerned, or by the information stored at the Agency, the property right shall be registered according to the functionality as indicated by the interested person.

9. An obligation related to the immovable property ownership right, which has originated within the contractual or statutory relationship, shall be subject to registration in the Registry of Immovable Property Rights, and:

a) which restricts the right of the owner to freely hold, dispose of and/or use an immovable property that has been registered with his/her ownership right;

b) in the case of violating which, the owner will, fully or partially, lose the ownership right, or his/her right to freely hold, dispose of and/or use an immovable property that has been registered with his/her ownership right shall be restricted.

10. If a building or structure under construction has not been registered on a land parcel on the basis of the construction documentation, the registration of an obligation related to the ownership right to this land parcel, which considers the transfer of the ownership right to the building or structure or a unit thereof to be built on the land parcel in the future, may be carried out on this land parcel if the conditions for using the land parcel for construction have been issued.

11. If the information card on the building or structure or the unit thereof placed on a land parcel has been issued under the procedure established by paragraph 2 of this article, the registration of an obligation related to the ownership right to the land parcel, which considers the transfer of the ownership right to the unit of the existing building or structure, may not be carried out.

12. This article shall not apply to the registration of a building or structure or a unit thereof in the ownership of the state, an autonomous republic and/or a municipality, and to the registration of the privatisation terms of the property administered by the state, an autonomous republic and/or a municipality.

Law of Georgia No 4016 of 15 December 2023 – website, 28.12.2023

Chapter III – Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights

Article 16 – Rights subject to registration in the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights

1. The following shall be registered in the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights:

a) a lien;

b) leasing;

c) a bank guarantee;

d) only the financial lien the subject of which is a credit claim under Article 8(2)(d) of the Law of Georgia on Financial Lien, Setoff and Derivatives;

e) security assets provided for by Article 3(1)(a) and 6(c) of the Law of Georgia on Mortgage-backed Bonds.

2. For the conferral of the right to a lien under paragraph 1(a) of this article, the right to a lien shall be registered in the Public Registry.

3. The right to a lien on the shares of partners of limited liability companies and limited partnerships shall be registered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

Law of Georgia No 3888 of 7 December 2010 – LHG I, No 67, 9.12.2010, Art. 416

Law of Georgia No 6309 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 5683 of 29 December 2019 – website, 31.12.2019

Law of Georgia No 2120 of 29 November 2022 – website, 16.12.2022

Article 17 – Grounds for registration

1. The conferral of, changes to and/or the termination of movable and intangible property rights shall be registered on the basis of an applicant's notice (information and/or document) or other information and/or document defined by the Instruction.

2. A registration body shall make the appropriate decision upon registration of an application for registration of a movable or intangible property right.

3. The procedure for submitting the data as grounds for registration shall be defined by the Instruction.

4. A registration body shall not be liable for the power of a person to request the registration of, changes to and/or termination of a movable or intangible property right, and/or for the authenticity of the notice and the data he/she has submitted.

Article 18 – The obligation to notify of a request for registration of the right in the Registry of Movable and Intangible Property Rights

A creditor or a debtor submitting an application for registration of a right, or registration of a change to a registered right and termination of a registered right on the basis of a notice shall notify the other party of the registration within one week after the registration.

Chapter IV – Registry of Public-law Restrictions and Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages

Article 19 – The Registry of Public-law Restrictions

1. The Registry of Public-law Restrictions shall be a collection of data on seizures of things and intangible property and on restrictions and prohibitions of administration of rights to things and intangible property that are imposed by judicial or other administrative bodies under the procedure determined by law, and the data on origination of, changes to and termination of prohibitions on registration.

2. Registration of public-law restrictions on things and intangible property shall rule out the registration of any other right/obligation to or of the abandonment of the ownership right to these things and intangible property, unless otherwise provided for by the appropriate registration document.

3. The restriction (based on its content) defined by paragraph 2 of this article shall not apply when:

a) a person interested in registration is a legal successor of the owner of the thing/intangible property or of a person with the registered right/obligation to such thing/intangible property;

b) the registration document is a legally effective Act issued by a court (arbitration tribunal);

c) the registration document has been issued, received or compiled before registration of the restriction or prohibition of the right to seize and dispose of the property and before entry into force of the Law of Georgia No 1962-II ს of 3 November 2009 on Making Amendments and Additions to the Law of Georgia on Public Registry;

d) the identification data of subjects of rights and/or objects of rights change as a result of registration;

e) a thing appears without owner after cancellation of the property right. In such case, along with cancellation of the property right registration, the registered seizure, the restriction or prohibition of a disposal shall be declared invalid;

f) a thing and/or intangible property has been disposed of by the enforcement agency in accordance with the enforcement procedure determined by the legislation of Georgia. In this case, the registered seizure, the restriction or prohibition of the disposal shall be declared invalid;

g) termination of the registered right (except for the ownership right)/obligation is requested, which is not related to the public-law restriction registered thereto, and unless such cancellation contradicts the content of the public-law restriction registered with regard to such thing.

3¹. The procedure established by paragraph 3 of this article shall not apply where the prohibition of registration of termination of the right/obligation is directly indicated in the legislative act on the public-law restriction, and/or where such right/obligation is an object of the public-law restriction.

4. A public-law restriction may not be registered if, at the time of submitting an application for registration of the public-law restriction on a thing or intangible property, this thing or intangible property is owned by another person, and/or the registration document conferring the right to request the registration of an ownership right has been issued, adopted or prepared before the registration of origination of a seizure or administration of prohibition on the registration object. In addition, the registration document has been issued, adopted or prepared before entry of this Law into force.

5. Where the registration of a public-law restriction is requested, and if the registration of a right is requested that contradicts the content of the public-law restriction, a respective decision on the registration of the public-law restriction shall be made first, and a decision on another right submitted for registration shall be made next.

6. Where the registration of rights/obligations in relation to a thing and an intangible property is requested, or changes (except for change of the owner) to the registered data are requested so that the changes contradict the content of the public-law restriction registered to the thing, but a person initiating the public-law restriction has submitted a written consent to the registration body with regard to such registration, the public-law restriction shall not be the basis to refuse the registration.

7. The procedure determined by paragraph 6 of this article shall not apply if the prohibition of the registration is directly indicated in the legislative act on the public-law restriction.

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Article 20 – The Registry of Tax Liens/Mortgages

1. Rights to tax liens/mortgages shall be registered in relation to a thing (except for a motorised vehicle) and intangible property.

2. A right to a tax lien/mortgage may not be registered if, at the time of registration of a request for registration of a right to a tax lien/mortgage on an immovable thing, this thing or intangible property is owned by another person.

3. If a transaction submitted for registration has been made with regard to a thing which is free of legal defects, and if, on the basis of the transaction, such thing has been charged with a tax lien/mortgage before registration of the property right, the property right of a new owner may not be registered, except where there is a preliminary written consent of the new owner with regard to accepting the charged thing in his/her ownership.

4. If the property has been disposed of by an enforcement institution, on the basis of the request of a tax authority, the tax lien/mortgage registered for such thing and intangible property that has been used to secure the fulfilment of the requirement of the tax authority, shall be cancelled.

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Chapter IV¹ – Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Article 20¹ – The principles of maintaining the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities

1. Data on the origination, making of changes into and termination of the subjects defined by the Civil Code of Georgia and the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs, and on the liabilities related to the limitation of title to the interests of partners of a limited liability company and a limited partnership, and on their origination, making of changes thereto and their termination shall be registered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

2. Information about the status of a special plaintiff provided for by the Law of Georgia on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities shall also be registered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

3. The grounds for registration of a subject in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities and the procedure for its maintenance shall be established by the Civil Code of Georgia and the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs. The additional terms for registration shall be defined by the instruction on the Registration of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities to be approved by the Minister of Justice of Georgia.

4. A subject shall be considered originated, its registered data shall be considered changed and the registration shall be considered terminated upon entry into force of the decision on the registration of the subject in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

5. Changing of the registered data of an enterprise shall mean the entry in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities of information about the change in the split up, liquidation or reorganisation process of the enterprise, the change in the insolvency proceedings, the commencement or termination of a bankruptcy or rehabilitation regime, in the liquidator, rehabilitation supervisor or bankruptcy commissioner, or in the foundation agreement and of information provided for by paragraphs 5¹, 5² and 5³ of this article. Where so provided for by the Law of Georgia on Mortgage-backed Bonds, changing of the registered data of an enterprise shall also mean the entry in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities of information about the programme administrator/programme liquidator.

5¹. Where so provided for by the Law of Georgia on Mortgage-backed Securities, information about the appointment/discharge of the programme administrator/programme liquidator shall be entered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

5². Where so provided for by the Law of Georgia on Investment Funds, information about the commencement/completion of liquidation of an investment company sub-fund and the appointment/discharge of its liquidator shall be entered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

5³. Where so provided for by the Law of Georgia on Transformation into Securities, information about the commencement/completion of liquidation of a division of a securitisation company authorised on the basis of the same Law, and the appointment/discharge of its liquidator shall be entered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities.

6. In the case of a change in the foundation agreement/the charter of an entrepreneurial company or a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity, a consolidated text of the foundation agreement/the charter must also be submitted along with the text of the change.

6¹. The words: ‘a collective property rights management organisation’, or another phrase using these words may not be used in the company name of an entrepreneurial company or a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity, except for a collective property rights management organisation accredited in accordance with the Law of Georgia on Copyright and Related Rights.

6². For ensuring compliance of the company name of an entrepreneurial company or a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity with the requirements provided for by paragraph 6¹ of this article, an application may be filed with the Agency by the Legal Entity under Public Law – National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia – Sakpatenti, under the procedure established by the Law of Georgia on Copyright and Related Rights.

7. The documents submitted for registration must be certified under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.

8. As a result of registration, a registration body shall prepare an extract. This procedure shall not apply to the registration of public-law restrictions and tax liens/mortgages, or to the registration of movable and intangible property rights, except for the registration of, making of changes into and termination of liens on the interests of partners of a limited liability company and a limited partnership.

9. An extract from the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities shall be prepared in the Georgian language, and also in the English language if requested by an interested person. If the extract is to be prepared in the English language, it must also be prepared in the Georgian language.

10. The electronic portal shall be a unified electronic platform, the virtual communication environment of the Agency, where decisions on the registration, documents related to the registration procedure, information/documents about convening of a general meeting of an entrepreneurial company and other information/documents to be published by an entrepreneur under the legislation of Georgia.

11. Electronic copies of the documents submitted during the registration process shall be posted on the electronic portal and shall be available to any person free of charge.

12. A subject shall be registered in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial (Non-commercial) Legal Entities according to the address it has specified. An interested person must indicate the address defined under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia as a legal address, to which a written notification (correspondence) can be sent. After the written notification (correspondence) is sent to the registered address, it shall be deemed to be the officially sent written notification (correspondence).

13. In order to define the legal address of a subject, the duly certified consent of the domicile owner or the appropriate agreement on the use of domicile concluded under the established procedure must be submitted to the Agency.

14. A registration body shall generate an electronic address for an entrepreneur or a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity along with the registration of this subject. This address shall be valid until the subject is cancelled. The registration body shall generate electronic addresses for an entrepreneurial company and a branch of an entrepreneurial company registered before entry of the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs along with the provision of compliance of their registration data with the requirements of the same Law.

15. A registration body shall generate an electronic address for a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity registered before 1 January 2022 if so requested by an interested person or when the registered data of this subject are changed.

16. An entrepreneur and a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity shall only post information provided for by the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs and/or information related to this subject on the electronic portal. The liability for the inappropriate use of the electronic portal shall be defined by the legislation of Georgia.

17. An entrepreneur and a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity themselves shall be responsible for placement of the appropriate information/documents provided for by the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs on the electronic portal and/or for the correctness of the information/documents. The Agency shall not check the correctness of the content and the procedure for publishing the information/documents (except for the registered data) placed on the electronic portal.

Law of Georgia No 6324 of 25 May 2012 – website, 12.6.2012

Law of Georgia No 2286 of 17 April 2014 – website, 2.5.2014

Law of Georgia No 3420 of 1 April 2015 – website, 22.4.2015

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Law of Georgia No 6840 of 14 July 2020 – website, 28.7.2020

Law of Georgia No 891 of 2 August 2021 – website, 4.8.2021

Law of Georgia No 2120 of 29 November 2022 – website, 16.12.2022

Law of Georgia No 3453 of 3 July 2023 – website, 25.7.2023

Law of Georgia No 3934 of 15 December 2023 – website, 27.12.2023

Chapter IV² – Registry of Addresses

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Article 20² – The principles for maintaining the Registry of Addresses

1. The basis for compiling the data of the Registry of Addresses shall be documents/information on naming and numbering of geographical features submitted by interested persons, and documents/information kept in the registration body, or prepared by agencies or state bodies, and by bodies of the autonomous republics and/or bodies of local self-government (municipalities).

2. The registration body shall be authorised to grant, at its own initiative, numbers to geographic features, apartments or other objects in the territory of Georgia.

3. The basis for making a decision with regard to numbering of geographical features, apartments or other objects in the Registry of Addresses shall be the documentation kept in the Agency and/or submitted by the interested person and evidencing the ownership right to and/or the right of usage of the immovable property.

4. Geographical features that have not been named under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia may not be assigned numbers.

5. If there is an incomplete/incorrect address indicated in the document certifying the ownership/use of the immovable property, the Agency shall identify the correct address and shall make the appropriate decision thereon.

6. The procedure and additional conditions for maintaining the Registry of Addresses shall be defined by the Instruction.

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Chapter IV² – The Register of Economic Activities

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Article 20³ – The principles for maintaining the Register of Economic Activities

1. The data on the economic activities of entities, changes made therein, and on their termination, and on the place (address) of economic activity shall be registered in the Register of Economic Activities.

2. Registration of an economic activity shall be voluntary, except as provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

3. If, in the case provided for by the legislation of Georgia, the registration of an economic activity in the Register of Economic Activities is mandatory, an entity shall be granted the right to conduct the economic activity after the decision on the registration is made by the registration body.

4. If the basis for registration of an economic activity subject to mandatory registration is the decision made by an administrative body, the registration body shall, with the use of automated control means, forward the information on the submitted application and documents to the authorised administrative body. The way of, and the procedure for forwarding information by these administrative bodies to one another shall be determined under an administrative agreement.

5. The decision made by the administrative body under paragraph 4 of this article shall be a basis for registration of an economic activity by the registration body, for making a change in it, or for its termination. Exceeding by the authorised administrative body of the time limit set for making the decision shall be considered a positive decision, and shall be a basis for granting the application by the registration body.

6. The economic activity shall be considered registered, the registered data shall be considered changed, and the registration shall be considered terminated upon entry of the appropriate decision of the registration body into force.

7. The validity period of the registration of an economic activity shall be one year from the moment of registration. Expiry of this period shall result in the invalidation of the decision on registration, unless the interested person applies for prolongation of the period of registration.

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Chapter V – Making and Appealing Decisions on Registration

Article 21 – Suspension of the registration procedure

1. A registration body shall make a decision on suspending the registration procedure if:

a) the document or information defined by the legislation of Georgia necessary for making the decision regarding the issue of an application is not attached to the application;

a¹) the fee for services provided by the Agency is not paid;

b) the application and/or attached documents or information are not submitted in the form and under the procedure determined by the legislation of Georgia;

c) the application and/or attached documents or information fail to provide means to identify the right to a thing and intangible property, or the obligation related to an immovable property ownership right, or the changes to and the termination of such right or obligation, a public-law restriction, an object or a subject of a tax lien/mortgage, and/or the owner or lawful possessor of an object;

d) there is an overlap provided for by the Instruction in the cadastral data of an immovable thing submitted for registration and of an immovable thing registered in the Public Registry, or when the area of an immovable thing in the cadastral data exceeds the area of an immovable thing indicated in the document confirming the right to the thing, except as provided for by the Instruction;

e) the registration body has officially become aware of the fact of appealing a registration document or another document or part thereof, and the appeal suspends the validity of the registration document or another document or part thereof;

f) the legally effective act of a court (arbitration tribunal) providing for the suspension of the registration procedure has been submitted;

g) there is a circumstance defined in Article 25 of this Law;

h) where there is an application for registration of a right to a land parcel, or of an obligation related to an ownership right to a land parcel, or of changes to or termination of such right or obligation, but the cadastral data on the land parcel are not available at the registration body or the cadastral data kept at the registration body fail to comply with the requirements set by the Instruction;

h¹) the documents submitted for registration have been forwarded to an appropriate law enforcement body for the examination of their lawfulness;

h²) an application for registration of the public-law restriction is not supported by a legislative act certifying the origination of such public-law restriction, irrespective of the presentation of the document certifying the application and submission to a court a request to use the right of the public-law restriction, in addition to an application on requesting a claim and on requesting to secure such claim and/or a document certifying the litigation in a Court of Appeals with regard to the use of the right of public-law restriction;

i) there are other grounds provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

2. The suspension period of the registration procedure shall be 30 calendar days, except for the exclusions provided for by this article.

2¹. The suspension period of the registration procedure shall be 3 working days in the case provided for by paragraph 1(a¹) of this article.

2². The suspension period of the registration procedure shall be 60 calendar days in the case provided for by paragraph 1(h¹) of this article.

2³. The suspension period of the registration procedure shall be 3 working days in the case provided for by paragraph 1(h²) of this article, and where there is a litigation in the Court of Appeals with regard to the use of the right of public-law restriction, the registration procedure may be suspended for the period before a decision of the Court of Appeals is made.

3. In the cases provided for by paragraph 1(e), (f), and (g) of this article, the registration procedure shall be suspended for the period indicated in the legally effective act of the appropriate body.

3¹. If, at the same time, there are legal grounds for the suspension of a registration procedure for periods set by paragraphs 2, 2¹, 2², 2³ and 3 of this article, the registration procedure shall be suspended until these grounds no longer exist, but for not less than the periods defined by paragraphs 2-2³ of this article.

3². The periods set by this article for the suspension of the registration procedure shall commence from the date when the interested person officially becomes familiar with the decision to suspend the registration procedure, and where such decision is officially published on the appropriate website of the Agency, the periods defined by this article for the suspension of the registration procedure shall commence from the date when the decision was published. The periods defined by this article for the suspension of the registration procedure may not be prolonged.

4. If the information or the document evidencing the elimination of the grounds for suspending the registration procedure is submitted within the period of suspension of the registration procedure, the registration body shall make a decision on resuming the registration procedure.

4¹. In the case provided for by paragraph 1(h¹) of this article, a decision to register the right/obligation (to grant the application) shall be made on the basis of the registration documents submitted after the expiry of the period of suspension of the registration procedure, unless there are other circumstances provided for by the legislation of Georgia excluding the registration of such rights/obligations.

5. If the registration procedure is resumed, the period for registration procedure shall commence from the beginning.

Law of Georgia No 1348 of 26 June 2009 – LHG I, No 13, 2.7.2009, Art. 69

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Article 22 – Termination of the registration procedure

A registration body shall make a decision on terminating a registration procedure if:

a) during the registration procedure, an applicant or a person duly authorised by the applicant has applied for termination of the registration procedure;

b) information or a document evidencing the elimination of the grounds for suspension of the registration procedure has not been submitted within the period of suspension of the registration procedure;

c) during the registration procedure, it has officially become aware of the fact that the right submitted for registration, or an obligation related to an immovable property ownership right, or a public-law restriction or a tax lien/mortgage, or their subjects or objects, no longer exists, or the registration document and/or another document has been declared invalid or null and void;

d) the legally effective act of a court (arbitration tribunal) providing for the termination of the registration procedure has been presented;

e) there are other grounds provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No 1348 of 26 June 2009 – LHG I, No 13, 2.7.2009, Art. 69

Article 23 – Refusal of registration

During the registration procedure, a registration body shall make a decision on the refusal of registration if:

a) the origination, changes to and the termination of a right or of an obligation related to an immovable property ownership right, or the origination, changes to and the termination of a right to a tax lien/mortgage or of a public-law restriction, or the origination of the abandonment of an immovable property ownership right is not subject to registration;

b) a registered right, or obligation related to an immovable property ownership right, or changes thereto and their termination, or public-law restriction or tax lien/mortgage, rule out the registration of the right, public-law restriction or tax lien/mortgage to the same immovable thing, which have been submitted for registration;

c) the registration document has been issued, adopted or prepared by an unauthorised person;

d) the fact of cancellation of the registration document has become known under the established procedure;

e) the legally effective act of a court (arbitration tribunal) providing for the refusal of registration has been presented;

f) by the time of application for registration, the ownership right has been transferred to a new owner;

f¹) the application for registration is identical to the registered data;

f²) an application submitted to a registration body for registration of the public-law restriction is not supported by a legislative act certifying the origination of such public-law restriction, irrespective of the presentation of the document certifying the application and submission to a court of the request to use the right of the public-law restriction, in addition to an application for requesting a claim and on requesting to secure such claim and/or a document certifying the litigation in a Court of Appeals with regard to the use of the right of public-law restriction;

f³) the application for initiation of the public-law restriction is identical to the application within the scopes of which the registration process is in progress in the Agency;

g) there are other grounds provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No 1348 of 26 June 2009 – LHG I, No 13, 2.7.2009, Art. 69

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016

Article 24 – Additional issues related to the registration procedure

1. Restrictions determined by the legislation of Georgia shall not apply to the resubmission of an application on the same issue where so provided for by Article 22(a) of this Law.

2. Restrictions provided for by Article 92 of the General Administrative Code of Georgia shall not apply to a registration procedure conducted by an authorised person.

3. If inconsistencies are identified during the registration procedure in the names and/or surnames indicated in the identity document of an interested person and in the registration documentation, in particular, incorrect letters caused by a mechanical mistake, or by making an error when transliterating to Georgian or due to another reason, and the diminutive forms of names, extra letters or lack of letters in the names and/or surnames, but other identification data (personal number, patronymic, date of birth, address, or other data) are consistent, the registration shall be conducted according to the records in the identity document of the interested person.

4. If an inconsistency provided for by paragraph 3 of this article has been identified during the registration procedure in the names and/or surnames indicated in the identity document of an interested person and in the registration documentation and the identity of the person cannot be established, and where the person’s names and/or surnames are otherwise inconsistent and/or where such inconsistencies cannot be otherwise corrected, the basis for registration of a right according to the records in the identity document of the interested person shall be the decision on establishing the fact that the registration document belongs to the person made by the Commission for the establishment of the fact that the registration document belongs to that person, which is set up under an Order of the Minister of Justice of Georgia.

5. The Rules of Procedure of the Commission for the establishment of the fact that the registration document belongs to the person shall be defined by the Instruction.

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 5154 of 3 June 2016 – website, 17.6.2016  

Article 25 – Suspension of validity of the registered data

1. Validity of the registered data shall be suspended by suspending a decision on registration if:

a) the registration document has been appealed and this appeal results in the suspension of the validity of the registration document;

b) a legal act issued by an authorised body to suspend the validity of the registered data has been submitted;

c) there is a legally effective court judgment to evidence that the registration document has been issued, adopted or prepared as a result of a criminal act of a person.

2. During the period of suspension of validity of the registered data, no extract regarding a thing or intangible property may be prepared, and no right (except for a tax lien/mortgage), or obligation related to an immovable property ownership right, or changes to them and their termination may be registered. 

Article 26 – Annulment of registration

1. The registration shall be declared invalid if:

a) the registration document confirming the transfer and/or termination of a right has been submitted;

b) a document confirming the right, which is the ground for registration, has been declared invalid or null and void;

c) the decision on registration has been declared invalid;

d) the validity period of the right has expired;

e) there are other grounds provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

2. Declaration of registration invalid shall not result in the restoration of the registration which was valid before being declared invalid.

3. Registration shall be declared null and void if:

a) the decision on registration has been declared null and void;

b) a legally effective act of a court has been submitted to evidence the fact of the registration being declared null and void;

c) there are other grounds provided for by the legislation of Georgia.

4. The consequences of declaring a registration null and void shall be defined under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.

5. Annulment of a registration may only be appealed along with the grounds for the annulment. 

Article 27 – Decision of a registration body

1. A registration body shall issue a decision with regard to the registration.

2. A decision of a registration body shall be issued in a written form and shall contain the following data:

a) the type of a decision;

b) the title;

c) the name and address of the registration body;

d) the time of issuance and the registration number;

e) the justification and legal grounds;

f) the name and address of a body where the decision may be appealed, and the time limit for filing the appeal;

g) the name, surname and signature of the authorised person;

h) the official seal.

3. A right to things and intangible property defined by this Law, or an obligation related to an intangible property ownership right, and a right to a tax lien/mortgage and a public-law restriction shall be deemed originated, changed or terminated, and an ownership right shall be deemed abandoned upon the issuance of the decision on registration, except as provided for by this Law.

4. The data may be entered in a decision using mechanical and/or electronic means.

5. A decision may be published by means of automated management tools. A decision published by means of automated management tools need not meet the requirements of paragraph 2(e), (g) and (h) of this article.

6. A decision shall enter into force upon its publication under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.

7. A decision shall also be deemed published if it is published on the official website of a registration body.

8. If a decision is issued by means of automated management tools, the time limits related to the decision shall commence upon its publication.

9. The procedure, form and other legal grounds for the issuance of a decision shall be defined by the Instruction.

Article 28 – Correction of technical defects in the registered data

A registration body shall correct a technical error it has made, which is caused by an inaccurate transfer of data from documents and by technical or calculation mistakes. Orthographic, arithmetic or other technical inaccuracies shall also be deemed technical errors.

Article 29 – Procedure for appealing a decision of a registration body

1. An interested person shall have the right to appeal a decision of a registration body after he/she has become officially familiar with it, and if the decision has been published, he/she shall have the right to appeal it within 30 calendar days after publication.

2. A decision of a registration body on the refusal of registration, or on the suspension or termination of the registration procedure, except for the decision on registration of movable and intangible property rights, and the decision on registration of an economic activity, the basis for making such decision is a decision made by the authorised administrative body, shall be appealed under the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.

3. A decision of a registration body on the registration of a right, and on the refusal of registration and on the suspension or termination of registration procedures related to movable and intangible property rights, shall be appealed in court. A decision of a registration body on registration shall be appealed in court.

3¹. The decision made by the Agency under Article 20³(4) of this Law shall be appealed in court along with the decision made by the authorised administrative body.

4. Appeal of a decision on registration of a registration body shall not suspend validity of the registered data and shall not preclude the issuance of an extract or another legal act on the basis of such data, unless otherwise defined by the authorised body.

5. Appeal of a decision of a registration body on the suspension of a registration procedure, or on the termination of a registration procedure or on the refusal of registration shall not suspend the validity of the appealed decision.

Law of Georgia No 5567 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.7.2016

Chapter VI – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 30 – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 31 – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 1343 of 26 June 2009 – LHG I, No 16, 7.7.2009, Art. 79

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 ­– LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 2980 of 27 April 2010 – LHG I, No 24, 10.5.2010, Art. 146

Law of Georgia No 3888 of 7 December 2010 – LHG I, No 67, 9.12.2010, Art. 416

Law of Georgia No 4208 of 22 February 2011 – website, 10.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 4413 of 11 March 2011 – website, 17.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 4468 of 22 March 2011 – website, 29.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 32 – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 3888 of 7 December 2010 – LHG I, No 67, 9.12.2010, Art. 416

Law of Georgia No 4413 of 11 March 2011 – website, 17.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 32¹ – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 33 – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 2980 of 27 April 2010 – LHG I, No 24, 10.5.2010, Art. 146

Law of Georgia No 3888 of 7 December 2010 – LHG I, No 67, 9.12.2010, Art. 416

Law of Georgia No 3966 of 10 December 2010 – LHG I, No 74, 24.12.2010, Art. 447

Law of Georgia No 4208 of 22 February 2011 – website, 10.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 4413 of 11 March 2011 – website, 17.3.2011

Law of Georgia No 4947 of 24 June 2011 – website, 13.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5008 of 1 July 2011 – website, 15.7.2011

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Article 34 – (Deleted)

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Law of Georgia No 2980 of 27 April 2010 – LHG I, No 24, 10.5.2010, Art. 146

Law of Georgia No 5565 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011

Chapter VII – Transitional and Final Provisions

Article 35 – Transitional provisions

1. The Minister of Justice shall ensure the approval of the Instruction on the Public Registry. The norms of the instruction approved by Order No 800 of 13 December 2006 of the Minister of Justice of Georgia on the Approval of the Instruction on the Registration of Immovable Property Rights that do not contradict the requirements of this Law and the legislation of Georgia shall be effective until this Instruction is approved.

2. Transactions made before entry of the Civil Code of Georgia into force, which were not registered in an appropriate registration body within the time limits determined by the then-effective legislation, shall serve as a basis for the registration of an immovable property right.

3. A right to an object of individual ownership shall be registered according to the total area of the object, i.e. its residential and non-residential areas.

4. The following shall be declared invalid:

a) a seizure imposed on a thing and intangible property recorded before entry of the Civil Code of Georgia into force, and another measure prohibiting registration or administration of a thing and intangible property;

b) a seizure and another measure prohibiting registration or administration of a thing or intangible property, a documentary proof of which is not kept at a registration body or which has been recorded on the basis of an act of an unauthorised person or body;

c) a public-law restriction registered before entry of this Law into force if it has been recorded after the thing or intangible property was in the ownership of another person, and/or a registration document conferring the right to request the registration of an ownership right, has been issued, adopted or prepared before the seizure or the prohibition of administration of the registration object was registered.

5. A tax lien/mortgage registered on a thing and intangible property, the documentary proof of which is not kept at a registration body or which has been registered on the basis of an act of an unauthorised person or body, shall be declared invalid. If a tax lien/mortgage is registered after a thing or intangible property was in the ownership of another person, it shall also be declared invalid.

6. A registration body shall apply to the body that has imposed a seizure or a tax lien/mortgage on a thing or intangible property to identify the owner or user (possessor) of an object of seizure or tax lien/mortgage if a seizure or tax lien/mortgage is registered to a thing or intangible property, but documents (information) identifying the owner or user (possessor) of the object of seizure or tax lien/mortgage as defined by the legislation of Georgia have not been submitted to the registration body. A body that imposed a seizure or a tax lien/mortgage shall, within one month after the application, submit to the registration body the documents (information) determined by the legislation of Georgia for the identification of an owner or user (possessor) of an object of seizure or tax lien/mortgage. The expiry of the above one-month period shall serve as a basis for the registration body to declare the registration of the seizure or tax lien/mortgage invalid.

Law of Georgia No 1962 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 251

Article 36 – Final provisions

1. The following shall be considered invalid upon entry of this Law into force:

a) the Law of Georgia on the Registration of Immovable Property Rights;

b) the Law of Georgia on Fees Established for Services Provided by the National Agency of Public Registry.

2. This Law shall become effective on the 15^th day from publication.

President of Georgia                                                           M. Saakashvili

Tbilisi

19 December 2008

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