Museum of Transport and Technology Act 2000

27 Registers

• (1) No Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar or other person charged with the keeping of any books or registers is obliged solely by reason of this Act to change the name of the Board in those books or registers or in any document.

  (2) The presentation to any such Registrar or person of any instrument, whether or not comprising an instrument of transfer by the Board,—

  • (a) executed or purporting to be executed by the Board; and

  • (b) relating to the property, rights, and appointments defined in section 19(1), (2), and (3); and

  • (c) containing a recital that the name of the Board has been changed by virtue of this Act or, as the case may require, that the property, rights, or appointments concerned have vested in the Board by virtue of this Act—

  is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence that the name of the Board has been changed or that the property, rights, or appointments referred to in that instrument is or are vested in the Board.

  (3) Except as provided in this section, nothing in this Act derogates from the provisions of the Land Transfer Act 1952.

  (4) The Registrar of a register relating to property or rights which is transferable only in books kept by a company or in a manner directed by or under an Act must, on written application under the seal of the Board, register the Board in its new name as the holder of that property or right.