REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEEDS REGISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1863.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1867 Session I, C-02

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEEDS REGISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1863.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY.

WELLINGTON.

1867.

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General Land Registry Office, Wellington, 15th February, 18G7. By virtue of the powers vested in me by "The Deeds Registration Amendment Act, 1863," I do hereby order, that on and after the first day of April next, the Register of Deeds Offices within the several Provinces of New Zealand, shall be open to the public daily (Sundays, Saturdays, and public holidays excepted), from Ten (10) o'clock a.m. to Four (4) o'clock p.m., and on Saturdays from Ten (10) o'clock a.m. to Two (2) o'clock p.m. But no Deeds shall be received for registration after the hours of Two (2) o'clock p.m. on Saturdays, and Three (3) o'clock p.m. on other office days. All former Regulations relating to office hours are hereby rescinded. Alfbed Domett, Registrar-General of Land. Approved in Council, twenty-seventh February, 1867. FoESTEE GOEITO, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Bt virtue of the powers in me vested by " The Deeds Registration Amendment Act, 1863," I hereby make the following Regulations for the practice and procedure of the several Register of Deeds Offices throughout the Colony, to take effect on and after the first day of January, 1867. 1. Where any will has been registered, and it shall afterwards appear that such will relates to other lands in addition to those delineated upon or annexed thereto, a plan of such other lands, accompanied by a statutory declaration of some person competent to declare to the facts, may be registered in the Register of Deeds where such will has been registered, whereupon the Registrar shall make the appropriate entries in the index or title books relating to such lands, and shall cause such plan and declaration to be recorded; and upon the recorded copy of the will, so registered as aforesaid, shall make a memorandum referring to the page or folio of the record book where such plan and declaration shall bo recorded, and such other entries or references as he may deem necessary or convenient. The aforesaid declaration shall refer by Registrar's number and date to the registered will, and shall state that, to the best of declarant's knowledge and belief, the lands described and delineated in the plan accompanying such declaration, are affected by the aforesaid registered will. 2. The word " will" in the foregoing regulation shall include the authenticated copy of any will registered under the fifth section of " The Registration of Deeds Amendment Act, 1860." 3. Whenever an indorsement has been or shall be made on a Crown Grant, after the same shall have been registered, certifying the day of the payment of the purchase money for the land comprised in such grant, or the date at which the grantee became entitled to a grant of such land, or describing more correctly the boundaries thereof, such indorsement may be registered by a copy thereof being indorsed on the recorded copy in the Register of Deeds wherein the grant may have been registered. 4. Every instrument in the Maori language presented for registration, shall be accompanied by a translation into English of the same, the correctness of which shall be certified by some Government Interpreter, or other officer of Government, to the satisfaction of the' Registrar of Deeds, and the translation shall be registered as forming part of the original deed. 5. In addition to the registration fees fixed by Order in Council of the 19th April, 1864, and Regulation of the 17th August, 1866, there shall be chargeable the following fees: — £ s. d. For the registration of any plan accompanied by statutory declaration '10 0 For recording, per folio ... ... ... ... 006 For every section or part of a section delineated ... ... 010 For the registration of any indorsement on a Crown Grant previously registered — If the indorsement be a correction of the description of the boundaries of the land granted ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 If of the day of purchase or date at which grantee became entitled ... 050 For every certificate of amount of duty payable under the fifty-sixth section of" The Native Lands Act, 1865" ... ... 0 10 0 For every appointment of a valuer under fifty-fifth section of said Act 0 10 0 For every application to the Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court under fifty-seventh section of said Act ... ... ... 300 For every copy of an instrument tendered for registration made under fifty-seventh section of said Act, per folio ... ... 0 0 6 For copy of any plan attached ... ... ... ... 026 For every statement explaining transactions under section fifty-seven not exceeding six folios ... ... ... ... 110 For every additional folio ... ... ... ... 006

REGULATIONS UNDER "THE DEEDS REGISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1863."

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PAPERS RELATIVE TO REGISTRATION OP DEEDS.

For every affidavit under section sixty-one not exceeding six folios ... 110 For every additional folio ... ... ... ... 006 For registration of the translation of any instrument in the Maori language, per folio ... ... ... ... 006 For recording any indorsement (after the first) of receipts of duty annually payable on any lease or other instrument ... ... 0 2 6 Alfred Domett, Registrar-General of Land. Approved by His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, this seventeenth day of November, 1866. Foster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council. Doubts having been raised as to the precise powers given by the Act under which the above Regulations were made, relating to documents and proceedings under the Native Lands Acts, they have been suspended for the present. Alfred Domett, Registrar-General of Land. June, 1867.

General Land Registry Office, Wellington, 17th August, 1866. Br virtue of the powers in me vested by :' The Deeds Registration Amendment Act, 1863," I do hereby order that on and after the first day of September next, in lieu of the fees heretofore payable under the Order in Council of the nineteenth April, 1864, in respect of the registration of Grants from the Crown, issued under " The Native Lands Act, 1865," there shall be one uniform fee of fifteen shillings payable on such Grants, and such fee shall be the total charge for the registration, recording and comparing of, and plans delineated upon, any such instrument. Alfred Domett, Registrar-General of Land. Approved by His Excellency the Governor in Council, the twenty-fourth August, 1866. Fobster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council.