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(b.) Every such receipt shall be issued in duplicate, and it shall be the duty of the person issuing the same to forward one duplicate to the Registrar of the district in which the land is situate. (c.) The Registrar shall embody all such duplicates in a book hereinafter called " the Provisional Register," and each receipt or order shall form a separate folium thereof, and shall be numbered accordingly, and when so numbered shall be deemed duly registered. 47. (1.) So soon as the Register of any land is finally constituted the Registrar shall close the Provisional Register as to such land, and shall transfer to the Register the record of all memorials and entries affecting such land so far as may be necessary to preserve existing interests. (2.) The Registrar shall also record the same on the duplicate grant, and such memorials and entries and the dealings to which they relate shall thereafter take effect as if the same had been originally entered in the Register. (3.) Every dealing the memorial or entry whereof has been either originally entered on or has been transferred to the Register in manner aforesaid shall be deemed to be finally registered. 48. So long as land remains on the Provisional Register no certificate of title other than a certificate in lieu of grant shall be issued in respect thereof, but every entry on the Provisional Register, if purporting to be duly made and signed, shall be received in all Courts of law and equity as evidence of the particulars therein set forth, and shall, as against the person named in the original receipt or order of Court and all persons claiming through, under, or in trust for him, be conclusive evidence that the person named in such entry is seised or possessed of the estate or interest of which he is expressed to be the registered proprietor. 49. Subject to any special provisions herein contained, all provisions of this Act shall, so far as the circumstances of the case will admit, apply to land on the Provisional Register, and to the registration of instruments and other matters affecting the same, save that the estate or interest of a proprietor of any estate or interest on the Provisional Register shall be indefeasible only against the person named in the original receipt or order, and all persons claiming through, under, or in trust for him. 50. After the land has been transferred from the Provisional Register as aforesaid, no dealing having the effect of creating any new estate or interest shall be registered until all fees for the issue and registration of the Crown grant or certificate of title and for contribution to the Assurance Fund have been paid : Provided that where a part only of the land in any grant or certificate is dealt with, the fees payable in respect thereof, so far as such fees are capable of apportionment, shall be apportioned upon such evidence as the Registrar deems sufficient for that purpose, and the payment of the amount assessed shall discharge the land in respect whereof such assessment is made.

. When Register duly constituted, Provisional Register i to bo closed and . memorials transferred to Register. 1908, No. 99, s. 47

Entries in Provisional Register to bo evidence of title. lb., s. 48

Provisions of Act to apply to provisional registration, lb., s. 49

No dealings to be registered until payment of fees. lb., s. 50

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