Singapore legislation
Section 142
Section 142
Correction of errors in land-register
(1)
The Registrar may of his own motion, or at the request of any aggrieved proprietor shall —
correct any folio of the land-register which is erroneous because of the entry of a mis-spelt name, or of the inclusion of land already included in a prior folio, or of the wrong description of parcels or of boundaries;
correct any erroneous entry or endorsement in the land-register; and
add to the land-register any matter which has been erroneously omitted.
(2)
Any correction shall be made in such manner as to leave the erroneous matter legible, and shall be authenticated by the Registrar’s signature or initials together with the date on which the correction was made.
(3)
In any case in which the Registrar corrects the land-register, he shall have regard to any improvements to the land which may have been made since the occurrence of the error and, where two or more titles are involved, he may correct that folio, entry or endorsement which in his opinion involves the least loss to the assurance fund.
(4)
Any person who, having dealt on the faith of an erroneous registration, has suffered loss or damage by the exercise of the power conferred on the Registrar by this section shall be entitled to be compensated from the assurance fund for the land of which he has been deprived and for any improvement erected thereon by him or by any predecessor in title, and may bring an action for the recovery of such compensation.
(5)
Any person having custody of a duplicate instrument required for correction may be summoned by the Registrar to deliver that instrument to him, and upon that person refusing or neglecting to do so the Registrar may apply to the Court for an order requiring that person to show cause why the instrument should not be so delivered, and the Court may make such order as the circumstances of the case require.
(6)
When any person summoned as aforesaid neglects or refuses to show cause, or to deliver up the duplicate instrument, as directed by the Court, the Registrar may, if the circumstances of the case so require, issue a substituted instrument in the same manner, and having the same effect, as provided by section 36 in the case of instruments which have been lost or destroyed.
(7)
In this section, “correction” includes cancellation and the addition of matter which has been omitted.
(8)
For the purposes of section 141, time does not run against any person entitled to compensation for loss or damage by reason of a correction under this section until the Registrar has given him notice that the correction has been made.[138