Singapore legislation

Section 14

of Registration of Deeds Act

Section 14

Conditions precedent to registration

(1)

No instrument or memorial shall be registered —

(a)

unless it is duly stamped in accordance with the law for the time being in force with regard to the collection of stamp duties;

(b)

so long as any arrears of land revenue or any fees payable under subsection (2) after demand for payment has been made remain due to the State in respect of the land included therein or affected thereby or any part of that land;

(c)

unless the boundaries of all lands affected thereby have been surveyed and demarcated to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor, or unless the Chief Surveyor certifies to the Registrar that a plan showing the boundaries of all the lands affected thereby and certified as correct by a registered surveyor has been lodged with him and that the plan has been approved by him for the purposes of this subsection;

(d)

unless the instrument or memorial presented for registration has endorsed upon it by a Collector of Land Revenue the town subdivision or mukim number, the demarcation lot number or part number, and the area of all land affected thereby, which endorsement the Collector of Land Revenue shall make on demand without undue delay and without charging any fee for so doing; and if any person suffers loss or damage by reason of such delay, the Collector of Land Revenue shall be liable to make good the loss or damage:Provided that where the Chief Surveyor has approved a plan under paragraph (c), the instrument or memorial shall be deemed to comply with this paragraph if the Collector of Land Revenue has endorsed thereon, in lieu of the area of the land affected, the serial number given to the plan by the Chief Surveyor;

(e)

if the fees for registration having been demanded remain unpaid;

(f)

which is not in accordance with this Act or with any rules made thereunder; and

(g)

where the Chief Surveyor has approved a plan under paragraph (c) — unless there has been paid to the Collector of Land Revenue such sum of money as the Collector of Land Revenue may determine to be the cost of demarcation and survey of the lands affected by the Chief Surveyor.

(2)

The Chief Surveyor with the approval of the Minister may fix a scale of fees to be charged for such demarcation and survey as aforesaid.

(3)

If by error any instrument has endorsed upon it a wrong town subdivision or mukim number, demarcation lot number or part number, or a wrong area, the Collector of Land Revenue may visit the land and there hold an inquiry into the matter, and if the Collector is satisfied that all the parties to the instrument who can be found within Singapore or their representatives, if any, admit the error and that the instrument has in fact been wrongly endorsed, then, notwithstanding the absence of any parties who are dead or have left Singapore, the Collector may, by order in writing, direct the endorsement on the instrument to be corrected and may himself make the correction upon the instrument being produced to him.

(4)

A certified copy of any order made under subsection (3) shall be served by the Collector upon the Registrar, who shall thereupon make such alterations as are necessary in the books and enrolled copies of instruments kept at the Registry of Deeds.