Section 184C — Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)

(1) The Registrar-General shall cause a General Register of Deeds to be maintained for the purposes of this Division.
(2) The General Register of Deeds shall be comprised of—
(a) the General Register of Deeds kept pursuant to the Registration of Deeds Act 1897,
(b) registration copies of instruments registered under this Division,
(c) instruments of a prescribed class,
(d) records required by the regulations to be kept as part of the General Register of Deeds,
(e) a record of registrations made under Division 2 after the amendment of that Division by the Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992,
(f) a record of registrations of resumptions and rescissions of resumptions made under section 196A after the amendment of that section by the Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992,
(g) instruments that were registered under the Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages Act 1898 after the commencement of the Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages (Amendment) Act 1992,
(h) instruments that were registered under the Bills of Sale Act 1898 after the commencement of the Bills of Sale (Amendment) Act 1992, and
(h1) instruments that were registered under the Security Interests in Goods Act 2005 (including instruments granting agricultural goods mortgages),
(i) memoranda of covenants registered under Division 5 of Part 6.
(2A) The General Register of Deeds is also comprised of—
(a) entries under Division 2 that constituted the register of causes, writs and orders affecting land immediately before the amendment of that Division by the Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992,
(b) recordings of resumptions, and of rescissions of resumptions, that constituted the Register of Resumptions under section 196A immediately before the amendment of that section by the Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992,
(c) each register kept for the purposes of a provision of the Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages Act 1898 immediately before the amendment of the provision by the Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages (Amendment) Act 1992, and
(d) each filing, recording or registration that, immediately before the repeal or amendment of a provision of the Bills of Sale Act 1898 by the Bills of Sale (Amendment) Act 1992, was a filing, recording or registration for the purposes of the provision.
(3) The General Register of Deeds may be maintained in or upon any medium or combination of mediums capable of having information recorded in or upon it or them.
(4) The Registrar-General may, from time to time, vary the manner or form in which the whole or any part of the General Register of Deeds is maintained.

Related sections

• s 184 — Abolition of Rule in Pigot’s Case
• s 184A — Registration copies
• s 184B — Application of Division to certain instruments
• s 184D — Registration of instruments
• s 184E — Method of registration
• s 184F — Destruction of documents

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