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Land Includes buildings and other structures and land covered with water (section 28). Land Certificate A duly authenticated copy of the title sheet issued to an applicant on the registration of any interest which is not a heritable security (section 5(2)). Long Lease A probative lease - (a) exceeding 20 years; or (b) which is subject to any provision whereby any person holding the interest of the grantor is under a future obligation, if so requested by the grantee to renew the Lease so that the total duration could (in terms of the Lease as renewed, and without any subsequent agreement, express or implied, between the persons holding the interests of the grantor and the grantee) extend for more than 20 years (section 28). Noting Information which is not registrable may be noted on a title sheet on application being made to the Keeper (sections 6(4) and 12(3)(h) and Rule 13) Office Copy A duly authenticated copy of a title sheet, part thereof or of any document referred to in a title sheet issued to any person applying for same (section 11(3)). Operational Area An area in respect of which the provisions of the Act relating to registration have come into operation (section 11(3)). Overriding Interest A convenient label for those "real" rights or restrictions which did not, before commencement of the Act, require to be recorded in the Register of Sasines and do not in terms of the Act require registration to make them real. Overriding interests included servitudes, rights of crofters, public rights of way &c. (section 28(1)). Recorded / Registered These words are both used (especially in leasehold property) in connection with the Register of Sasines. In this publication and in papers issued by the Keeper, recorded is restricted in use to the Register of Sasines and registered to the Land Register. Rectification An inaccuracy in the Land Register may be corrected by the Keeper, by the insertion, cancellation or amendment of anything therein. Such correction may normally not be made to the prejudice of a proprietor in possession (section 9 and rule 20).