Deeds Registration Act 1908

Public Act	1908 No 40
Date of assent	4 August 1908

Note

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Title

1 Short Title, etc

2 Instruments excepted from Act

3 Interpretation

4 Registration districts

5 Deeds Register Office

6 Registrar of Deeds

7 Registrars to give security

8 Seal of Register Office

What may be registered

9 Instruments affecting land

10 Crown grants to be registered before delivery to grantee

11 Instruments made before the issue of Crown grants

12 Effect of such registration of instruments under last preceding section

13 Effect of issue of Crown grant on such registration

14 Registration ineffectual unless made in proper office

15 Certified copies of registered instruments

16 Powers of attorney

17 Judgments, etc

18 Memorials

19 Registration of copy of instrument

20 Instrument in Maori to have translation

Mode of registration

21 Book of primary entry

22 Note of presentation and entry in index book

23 How entry to be made

24 Mistake in entry

25 Receipt for instrument

26 Instrument to have plan of land

27 Exceptions to foregoing rule

28 Registration number of prior instrument to be endorsed

29 Order of registration

30 Instruments to be copied

31 Copies to be checked

32 Instrument affecting lands not delineated on plan

33 Endorsement on Crown grant

District Agents

34 Registration through District Agents

Registration to give priority

35 Avoidance of unregistered deed or contract

36 Avoidance of will

37 Avoidance of judgment, etc

38 Avoidance of lease not taking effect in possession

39 Registration not to avail against express notice

40 Volunteers protected in certain cases

41 Avoidance of instrument deducing title through unregistered instrument

Deposit of instruments

42 Powers of attorney

43 Deposit to be a discharge from covenant to produce

44 Deposited instrument to be numbered

45 Instruments to be kept

46 Receipt for deposited instrument

Alterations of boundaries of districts

47 Where boundaries of district altered, copy of original register to have same force and effect

Miscellaneous

48 Production and evidence of registered instruments

49 Registrar not bound to produce register without Judge's order

50 Copies of or extracts from instruments

51 Registration, when compulsory

52 Fees on registration

53 Regulations

54 Practice of Deeds Register Offices

Schedule 1
Enactments consolidated

Schedule 2
Scale of fees

An Act to consolidate certain enactments of the General Assembly relating to the registration of deeds affecting land

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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