Section 28

The Registrar shall register any instrument which is in order for registration by endorsing a memorial thereof on the folio of the land-register, or, in the case of an instrument affecting only a registered mortgage, charge or lease, by endorsing a memorial thereof on the mortgage, charge or lease.

Two or more instruments which affect the same land and which are awaiting registration shall be registered in the order which will give effect to the intentions of the parties as expressed in or apparent from the instruments:Provided that where the intentions of the parties under the instruments appear to the Registrar to conflict the instruments shall be registered in the order in which they were lodged in registrable form, or were made registrable, as the case may be.

For the purposes of subsection (2), an instrument is not registrable if any material correction, alteration or addition is necessary, nor, except as provided in section 33, if the person acquiring title under it has not custody or control of the duplicate instrument of title.

A memorial of registration shall contain the serial number or symbol of the instrument, a description of its nature and effect and of the person acquiring title under it, and the day and time of its registration, and shall be signed by the Registrar and sealed.

When a memorial of registration has been signed by the Registrar and sealed, the person named therein as taking an estate or interest becomes the proprietor of that estate or interest.

The Registrar, on being satisfied that any entry in the land-register has ceased to affect the land to which it purports to relate, may of his own motion cancel that entry.[24