Section 8

Immediately section 14(1), or the provisions of that subsection other than paragraphs (c) and (d), in the event of those paragraphs being dispensed with under section 29(1)(l), have been complied with, any instrument provisionally registered shall be deemed to have been registered under this Act as to the lands with respect to which an entry has been made under section 5(3), and the date, hour and minute entered under that subsection shall be deemed for all purposes to be the date of registration.

Immediately after the registration of any deed, probate, letters of administration, order of court, certificate of appointment of trustee in bankruptcy, private Act or memorandum of charge or discharge there shall be endorsed on the original deed or on the probate or letters of administration or the office copy of the order of court or certificate or the copy of the Act or on the memorandum of charge or discharge, as the case may be, produced to the Registrar, a certificate stating the date, hour and minute of registration, and the volume, page and number in the register in which the same or the memorial thereof, as the case may be, is or is intended to be enrolled, and the Registrar shall sign the certificate and seal it with the seal of the Registry of Deeds, and every certificate so signed and sealed shall be receivable in evidence.

If at the expiration of 6 months from the date of provisional registration of any instrument section 14(1) other than paragraphs (c) and (d) has not been fully complied with, then the provisional registration shall be null and void for all purposes and all entries in respect thereof shall be cancelled.

Subsection (1) shall not apply to any assurance in respect of any estate or interest in any residential property within the meaning of the Residential Property Act [Cap. 274] lodged with the Registrar on or after 11th September 1973*.* Date on which Cap. 274 came into operation.