Section 15

Subject to this Act, all instruments registered under the Registration of Deeds Ordinance 1886 [XIII/1886] or entitled to be registered under this Act, have priority according to the date of their registration and not according to the date of the instruments or of their execution.

Nothing in this Act shall interfere with the priorities as between themselves of any instruments the dates of registration of which are identical.

Instruments executed or made before the commencement of this Act in Singapore by which any land within Singapore is affected which are not registered under the Registration of Deeds Ordinance 1886 shall, if registered under this Act within 6 months from the day of the date of commencement of this Act as regards priority, be deemed to have been registered on that day.

All priorities given by this Act shall have full effect in all courts except in cases of actual fraud, to which the person by or on whose behalf the registration is made is a party, and all persons claiming thereunder any legal or equitable interests are entitled to corresponding priorities, and no such person shall lose any such priority merely in consequence of his having been affected with actual or constructive notice except in cases of actual fraud to which he is a party.

Nothing in this section shall operate to confer upon any person claiming without valuable consideration under any person any further priority or protection than would belong to the person under whom he claims, and any disposition of land or charge on land which, if unregistered, would be fraudulent and void shall, notwithstanding registration, be fraudulent and void in like manner.