REGISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS ACT.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section
2. Appointment of registrar and assistant registrars.
4. Persons to present documents for registration.
5. Registration, how effected.
6. Numbering and filing of documents.
7. Memorandum endorsed on registered document.
9. Refusal to register where rules not complied with or document unsuitable.
10. Refusal to register where document contains seditious, etc. matter.
11. Documents in foreign language.
12. Documents containing interlineations, blanks, erasures or alterations.
13. Power of registrar to correct errors and omissions.
14. Registration not to cure defect or confer validity.
15. Registers may be searched and copies obtained.
17. Certified copy of registered document admissible in civil cases.
18. Nonliability of Registrar.
21. Preservation of old registers.
Schedule Fees.
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REGISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS ACT.
Commencement: 31 May, 1922.
An Act relating to the registration of documents.
In this Act, "registrar" means the registrar of documents or any assistant registrar of documents appointed under section 2.
2. Appointment of registrar and assistant registrars.
The Minister may appoint a registrar of documents and such assistant registrars of documents as he or she may consider necessary for the purposes of this Act.
The registrar shall keep a register of documents and, subject to the exceptions hereafter stated, shall register in it in the manner hereafter provided all documents presented to him or her in the prescribed form on payment of the prescribed fee.
4. Persons to present documents for registration.
A document presented for registration must be so presented either by a person executing or claiming an interest under it or the agent of that person, and the registrar may require to be satisfied as to the identity and interest of the person by whom it is brought, or, in the case of an agent
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