Singapore legislation
Section 17
Section 17
Registration
(1)
Subject to this Act and the rules, the Registrar must register all assurances and other instruments that are entitled to be registered under this Act which, or memorials of which, are presented to him or her for registration in the order in which they are so presented and must make such entries as are prescribed.
(2)
An assurance or instrument must not be registered under this Act unless it complies with the requirements of this Act and the rules.
(3)
The register maintained by the Registrar for the purposes of this Act may be kept wholly or partly —
on paper or microfilm, or in any other medium or a combination of mediums capable of having information recorded in or upon it or them; and
in a device for storing and processing information.
(4)
The Registrar may microfilm assurances and other instruments registered under this Act and any repealed enactment and dispose of them in such manner as he or she may think fit after they have been microfilmed.