Method of registration
(1) Registration of an instrument in the General Register of Deeds after the commencement of the Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992 is effected by the Registrar-General allocating a distinctive reference to the instrument in accordance with the regulations in order to signify registration of the instrument. (1A)–(3) (4) The Registrar-General may refuse to register an instrument in the General Register of Deeds if— (a) the original instrument or registration copy does not comply with any relevant provision of this Division or with any relevant requirement prescribed by the regulations or the lodgment rules, or (b) any other relevant requirements prescribed by the regulations or the lodgment rules in relation to the registration of instruments under this Division are not complied with. (4A) If an instrument purports to vest an estate or interest in land, or to effect a change in the name of a person in whom an estate or interest in land is vested, the Registrar-General may— (a) refuse to accept the instrument for registration in the General Register of Deeds, or (b) refuse to register the instrument in the General Register of Deeds, or (c) reject the instrument if it is lodged for registration in the General Register of Deeds, if the instrument is not accompanied by a fully completed notice in the approved form. (5) Instruments are registered under this Division in the order in which the distinctive references referred to in subsection (1) are allocated to the instruments. (6) Notwithstanding subsection (5), instruments registered under the Registration of Deeds Act 1897 shall be taken to have been registered in the order determined by reference to the time endorsed on the copy pursuant to that Act. (7) (8) Except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires, a reference (however expressed) in this or any other Act, in any instrument made under this or any other Act or in any other instrument of any kind, to registration in, or an instrument registered in, the General Register of Deeds shall be read and construed as, or as including, a reference to registration under, or an instrument registered under, this Division.
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