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Statutory deadline: transfer within six months of the permission being published

Rule record · last verified 20 September 2026

Superseded This rule stopped applying on 6 August 2026. The current rule is Current deadline: transfer within one year of the permission being published. The record is kept for history.

Rule · superseded

Under the law, the transfer must be executed at the District Land Registry, on the official transfer form signed before the officer, within six months of the publication in the Official Gazette of the Council of Ministers decision granting permission; otherwise the decision is automatically cancelled and void.[1]

Practical implication

While a decree with force of law is in force this period is one year instead of six months.

Where this rule comes from

Instrument
Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, No. 52/2008, consolidated with amending Law 39/2024, Article 8(6)
Authority
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC
Jurisdiction
Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis
Legislation · asserted by us within this jurisdiction
Verification
Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 20 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.

Lineage

Regulatory events

History of this rule

  • — First published from the primary text. (version 1, First published)
  • — Following Founder approval: applied the correction identified by an internal audit. This rule and decree-transfer-deadline-one-year were both public and both marked 'current' for the same question, even though event-2026-08-07-decree-89-2026's own rulesBefore/rulesAfter arrays already recorded this rule as superseded on 2026-08-07. Marked status: superseded, effectiveTo set to the day before the decree took effect, supersededBy linked, and this rule's answers[] entry for q-check-title-transfer-pathway removed so the public data export no longer lists it as a live answer to that question alongside the decree rule. No legal conclusion changed — the statutory six-month period remains accurately stated here as the position that applies whenever no decree is in force, per this rule's own practicalImplication field (unchanged) and the guide prose that already correctly explained this before this correction. (version 2, Corrected)

Sources for this rule

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

  1. [1]
    Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, No. 52/2008, consolidated with amending Law 39/2024

    Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Legislation and gazettes · 10 November 2008 · original in Turkish · accessed 14 September 2026 · source record

Review record

  • — Founder (editorial) · ApprovedApplies a correction, approved 2026-09-20: this rule and decree-transfer-deadline-one-year were both public and both marked current for the same question, though the 2026-08-07 decree (event-2026-08-07-decree-89-2026) had already superseded it. Corrected: status set to superseded, effectiveTo set to 2026-08-06, supersededBy linked to decree-transfer-deadline-one-year, and its answers entry for the title-transfer-pathway question removed so it no longer double-answers that question in public data. No underlying legal conclusion changed — the statement, statutory basis and practical-implication note are unchanged from the original text; verified directly against the published data export after the build that only decree-transfer-deadline-one-year now answers that question.

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/statutory-transfer-deadline-six-months

Identifier statutory-transfer-deadline-six-months · Open data · challenge this rule