LAND REGISTRATION AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION ORDINANCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 775, 5 January 1853, Page 4

LAND REGISTRATION AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION ORDINANCE.

Passed the 29th day of December, 1852. Preamble. Whereas, by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zetland, Session 11, No. 9, intituled, "An Ordiuaoce to provide for the Registration of Deeds and Instruments affecting Real Property/ it is provided that there shall be deposited in the Rtgister Offic* of every County or District maps of all lands which shall from time to time be surveyed within the limits thereof, which maps shall be signed by the Surveyor-General of the Colony, and by the Registrar : Be it enacted, by the Governor-in- Chief of the Islands of New Zealand, with the advice aud consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : Signature of any person duly authorised as effectual as that of Surveyor-General. 1. The signature of any person duly authorised in that behalf by his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, affixed to maps for the purposes of the I in part recited Ordinance, or of this Ordinance, ; shall be of the same force and effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the signature of the Surveyor-Geueral required to be fixed to maps by the said in part recited Ordinance : , Maps and Plans to be registered with Deeds. 2. And whereas doubts have arisen ip the construction of the said recited Ordinance, Sess. 11, No. 9, as to the necessity of registering maps or plans delineated upon Instruments, to be registered under the said Ordinance : be it enacted, that such mops or plans shall in all cases be registered in the same manner as, and together with, the instrument itself. Extension of Ordinance to Canterbury Settlement. 3. And whereas the operation of the said in part recited Ordinance is confined to the Registration of Grants by the Crown of land witbin the Colony, and of deeds, contracts, wills, judgments, suits, acceptances of office, inquisitions, bankruptcies, insolvencies, and private Oidinances, so far as regards aoy land to be affected thereby, subsequently to the date of such Grants : And whereas it is expedient to extend the operation of the said Ordinance to lands within the Canterbury Settlement : Be it enacted, that every conveyance of land witbin tbe Canterbury Settlement, made or to be made by the Canterbury Association, incorporated by her Majesty's Royal Charter, bearing date at Westminster tbe 13th day of November, in the thirteenth year of her reign, by the nams and style of " The Canterbury Association for Founding a Settlement in New Zealand," now called " The Canterbury Settlement/ and every deed or contract, except -as excepted, in the above-named Ordinance, and every will, judgment, suit, acceptance of office, inquisition, bankruptcy, insolvency, or private Ordinance, whereby such land may be affected, subsequently to the date of such conveyance, may be registered in like manner as a Grant by the Crown of land within the Colony, deed or contract, will, judgment, suit, acceptance of office, inquisition,' bankruptcy, insolvency, or private Ordinance, may be registered, and such registration shall have the like force and effect to all intents and purposes whatsoever ; and all the regulations and provisions contained herein or in the said recited Ordinance shall apply to the same : Limitation of effect of Registration. 4. Provided, that nothing herein, or in the said in part recited Ordinance, shall be construed to coufer any advantage on deeds, contracts, or wills, registered by^ virtue of this Ordinance, by reason of their having been registered before other deed*, contracts, or wills previously executed, until after the first day of January, 1854 : Commencement. 5. That this Ordinance shall come into operation from and after the passing he.eof. G. Geet, Go vernor-ia- Chief.