Chattels Transfer Act Amendment Act 1896

Public Act		1896 No 35
Date of assent		16 October 1896

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Transfer of Chattels.

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

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act is “The Chattels Transfer Act Amendment Act, 1896.”

2 Interpretation.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, “the principal Act” means “The Chattels Transfer Act, 1889”; “the Amendment Act” means “The Chattels Transfer Act Amendment Act, 1895.”

3 Validation of past registration.

The provisions of subsection one of section five of the Amendment Act shall be deemed to have extended and applied to every instrument registered before the coming into operation of this Act, anything in subsection two of the same section to the contrary notwithstanding.

4 Section 5 of Amendment Act repealed.

Section five of the Amendment Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is enacted that, in the event of there being-more Registrars than one in any provincial district, the registration of an instrument pursuant to section four of the principal Act may be effected with and by any such Registrar.

5 Section 8 of principal Act repealed.

Section eight of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof as from the date of the coming into operation of the principal Act:—

“The period within which an instrument may be registered is twenty-one days from the day on which it was executed:

“Provided that the day on which the instrument is executed shall not be included in the said period for registration:

“Provided further that instruments executed in the Chatham Islands or other dependency of New Zealand may be registered at any time within ninety days from the execution thereof, and all instruments affecting chattels in the Chatham Islands or, other dependency of New Zealand shall be registered in the Wellington Provincial District:

“Provided further that when the time for registering an instrument expires on a day on which the Registrar’s office is closed the registration shall be valid if made on the next following day on which such office is open.”

6 Date of execution.

If there be more than one grantor, the date of execution of the instrument shall be deemed to be the date of the execution by the grantor who first executes the instrument.

7 Cheviot and Amuri deemed situate within Provincial District of Canterbury.

For the purposes of registration, the Counties of Cheviot and Amuri shall be deemed to be situate within the Provincial District of Canterbury.

8 First Schedule of principal Act amended.

The word “precisely,” in the paragraph numbered three of the form of affidavit in the First Schedule to the principal Act, shall be deemed not to have been inserted therein.

9 Section 31 of principal Act amended.

Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting the words “twenty-six” next after the word “sections.”

10 Not to affect proceedings commenced.

Nothing in this Act contained shall affect proceedings actually commenced at the time of the coming into operation hereof.

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