At a glance
- Law HO-319-N takes effect on 18 October 2026 and adds Articles 34.1 and 34.2 to Armenia’s law on state registration of rights to property.
- It covers errors in the government’s own map data: boundary, area, shape, location, designated purpose and owner-data mismatches, including parcels left off the map or plotted in the wrong place.
- Decision deadline for the special Article 34.1 proceeding: 40 days, extendable by up to 20 further days where the Cadastre needs additional information or documents.
- Service fee: AMD 30,000 (about USD 82 at the CBA rate of 363.85 on 4 September 2026), charged for the Article 34.1(5) hierarchical proceeding.
- If the correction increases your registered area, Article 34.1(11) requires payment for the added area at its cadastral value as at the application date, before registration.
From 18 October 2026 a boundary, area, location or owner-data error in Armenia’s cadastral map can be corrected through a dedicated administrative procedure under law HO-319-N, with a decision due within 40 days and a service fee of AMD 30,000 (about USD 82 at the CBA rate of 363.85 on 4 September 2026) for the special hierarchical route. The law inserts Articles 34.1 and 34.2 into the registration law and puts the Cadastre Committee under an express duty to repair map data that its own records got wrong. Most owners abroad discover the problem at the worst possible moment, when a sale, a mortgage or a first registration stalls on a parcel whose registered outline does not match the ground.
What counts as a cadastral map error under HO-319-N
The statutory scope reaches six categories of discrepancy in the cadastral record: the parcel’s boundary, its area, its shape, its location on the map, its designated purpose, and the owner data attached to it. A parcel omitted from the map altogether, or drawn on top of a neighbouring plot, falls inside the same procedure. This route fixes the government’s data, not your own paperwork.
That line matters because two adjacent problems are handled elsewhere and remain unchanged by HO-319-N. Mistakes you made in your own filing are cured by refiling; our guide to the most common e-Cadastre application errors covers those. Errors in the registration data itself continue under Article 34, and assignment or correction of a property address continues under Article 44, which remains free of charge and is described in our note on Armenian property address assignment.
The court ruling behind the law
Armenia’s Court of Cassation decided case ՈԴ/11987/05/18, Hovhannisyan v. Cadastre Committee, on 2 October 2023, publishing it on 22 December 2023. The court held that a cadastral map error attributable to public administration cannot be used to block registration of a private right, and that the Cadastre Committee carries a positive obligation to remove the obstacle it created. The official legislative justification accompanying HO-319-N cites that ruling as a driver of the reform, which tells you how the Committee is expected to read the new articles: as a duty to correct, with a deadline attached.
The correction procedure step by step
1. Pull the current unified extract and compare it to the ground. The extract shows the registered boundary, area and owner data the Cadastre holds today. Our walkthrough of running a title and encumbrance check in Armenia’s Cadastre sets out how to obtain and read one.
2. Commission the surveyor package. The applicant supplies the evidence. A licensed surveyor produces the measurement package, a written conclusion identifying the inaccuracy, and a situation plan; an orthophoto of the area is used to demonstrate actual occupation against the registered outline. Every correction requires this general package, and the special Article 34.1 proceeding requires an enhanced version of it.
3. File the application. The ordinary map-correction route under Government Decision N 698-N is open now and accepts filings at any Cadastre office or through e-cadastre.am, which since 2026 is the standard electronic channel described in our guide to Armenia’s electronic-only property registration rule. The filing channel for the new Article 34.1 hierarchical proceeding has not been prescribed: HO-319-N leaves it to an order of the head of the Cadastre Committee due within three months of commencement, that is by roughly 18 January 2027.
4. Neighbours are brought in, on two different bases. Where the parcel adjoins community or state land, a 15 business day response window applies and silence within it operates as consent. Private adjacent owners participate through a consent and signature requirement on the correction materials. A neighbour who disagrees or fails to appear does not automatically stop the correction where the Committee finds the survey evidence sufficient.
5. Decision, payment where the area grows, then registration. The Committee issues its decision inside the statutory period below. Where the corrected outline gives you more land than the register recorded, payment falls due before the corrected data is registered.
Timeline, fee, and what a change in area costs
Article 34.1(12) sets the review period at 40 days, best read as calendar days, running from the application. The Committee may take up to 20 further days, and the trigger for that extension is narrow: a need to obtain additional information or documents. There is no general complexity test. Both periods attach to the Article 34.1 special proceeding.
The AMD 30,000 charge is a statutory service fee, introduced by Article 3 of HO-319-N as Article 73(1.1) of the registration law, and its express scope is the Article 34.1(5) hierarchical proceeding. No separate fee is established for the block-wide mechanism. It sits alongside, and does not replace, the ordinary registration fee schedule under the same law, where standard registration costs AMD 45,000 and two-hour accelerated registration costs AMD 170,000. Surveyor fees are set by the private surveyor and are additional.
Payment for a change in area follows two different rules depending on which mechanism produced the change.
| Mechanism | Area decreases | Area increases |
|---|---|---|
| Individual correction, Article 34.1 | No compensation mechanism is provided in this article. | Immediate payment for the added area at its cadastral value as at the application date, under Article 34.1(11). |
| Block-wide review, Article 34.2 | The community compensates the owner at cadastral value. | Ownership is registered subject to a condition that a future acquirer pays for the added area, valued at the date of payment. |
The block-wide review is discretionary. Article 34.2 provides that the Committee may review an entire cadastral block, and conditions that review on the units being built up or fenced and on whole-block orthophoto and cadastral-map evidence. An owner cannot compel it by asking.
What this means for buyers, sellers and lenders
Price the delay into the closing schedule. A correction under the special proceeding can consume 40 days, plus up to 20 more if the Committee asks for further documents, plus a 15 business day neighbour window where community or state land adjoins the plot. On a financed purchase that sequence usually outruns the validity of a lender’s valuation.
Keep the correction deadline separate from the registration deadline. The 30 working day window in Article 24(6) of law HO-295, after which an unregistered transaction becomes void, is a different clock governing your purchase registration, and the correction timeline above does not extend it. Conflating the two is the most expensive mistake available here.
Two questions the statute leaves open should be settled on the facts of your file before you commit. HO-319-N does not state whether an open correction case is noted on the unified extract or how it affects a pending sale or mortgage, so the position depends on the general suspension rules and on what the Committee actually records. It also contains no transition provision found for applications already filed under N 698-N when the new articles commence on 18 October 2026, so whether such a file continues or restarts is unsettled.
For due diligence, order a fresh unified extract dated after the corrected data is registered, and read the boundary and area figures against the surveyor’s final plan before releasing funds. Our Armenian real estate practice runs this reconciliation as a standard step.
Frequently asked questions
Does HO-319-N replace Armenia’s existing cadastral correction procedure?
How much does a cadastral boundary correction cost in Armenia?
How long does the correction take?
Can a neighbour block the correction?
What happens if the correction reduces my registered area?
Is the block-wide review automatic if my neighbours have the same problem?
Can I sell or mortgage the property while a correction is pending?
What to do before 18 October 2026
Order a unified extract now and lay the registered outline over a current orthophoto or survey. A discrepancy you find in September is a scheduling problem; the same discrepancy found at signing is a collapsed transaction.
Commission the licensed surveyor before you file, since the Committee decides on the package you submit. Applications under the new Article 34.1 route cannot be filed until 18 October 2026, while the N 698-N route accepts them today. Diary a review for mid-January 2027, when the Cadastre Committee head’s implementing order on the filing channel is due.
Last updated: 6 September 2026
