Registration of Deeds Act 1935 (SA)

South Australia Registration of Deeds Act 1935 An Act to consolidate certain Acts providing for the registration, deposit, and enrolment of deeds, wills, judgments, conveyances, and other instruments and documents.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary and administrative provisions 1 Short title 3 Repeal 4 Savings 5 Interpretation 6 Registrar-General of Deeds 7 Validation of certain acts etc 8 Neglect of duty by registrar Part 2—Registration 9 Application of this Part 10 Instruments to be registered and the effect of registration 10A Registration of memorandum of appointment of new trustees 11 Mode of registration 12 Proof or acknowledgment of execution 13 Persons entitled to attest and take acknowledgments 14 Contents of memorials 15 Inaccurate memorials 16 Registration of two or more writings affecting same land 17 Time for registering instruments executed outside the State 18 Time for registering wills 19 Time for registering wills where party disabled 20 Time for registering wills in case of concealment or suppression 21 Registration of judgments 22 Certificate of judgment 23 Discharge of mortgages and judgments 24 Particulars of certificates 25 Effect of certificate of discharge 26 Provisions as to keeping memorials 27 Index of memorials 28 Proof of lost instrument by memorial 29 Registration of warrants of attorney 30 Registration not to affect construction of instrument Part 3—Deposit 31 Deposit of documents affecting land 32 Production of deposited documents 33 Inspection of deposited documents 34 Certified copies and duplicates of deposited deeds 35 Protection to persons acting under registered and deposited power of attorney Part 4—Enrolment 36 Enrolment of instruments for proof 37 Production of enrolled instruments 38 Enrolment of wills Part 5—General provisions 39 Effect of enrolment and deposit 40 Amendment of errors 41 Searches 43 Forgery etc 44 Evidentiary effect of registrar's certificate 45 Regulations Schedule 1—Acts repealed Schedule 2—Form of certificate to be endorsed on the instrument registered Schedule 3 Schedule 4—Certificate of acknowledgment by conveying parties Schedule 5—Memorial of instrument not being judgment Schedule 6—Memorial of warrant of attorney, cognovit actionem or judgment Schedule 7—Memorandum of deposit Legislative history