Singapore legislation

Section 164

of Land Titles Act 1993

Section 164

Certified copies: Value as evidence

Amended by4/2012

(1)

Subject to subsection (4), the Registrar, upon payment of the prescribed fee, must furnish to any person applying for it a certified copy of any instrument registered under the provisions of this Act, or which is in his or her custody and is the subject of a notification on the land-register.

(2)

Every such certified copy signed by the Registrar and sealed with his or her seal shall be received in evidence in any court, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, as prima facie proof of all the matters contained in or entered on the original instrument.

(3)

A print-out of any information (other than computer folios) stored in a computer in the Land Titles Registry issued by the Registrar and bearing a facsimile of the Registrar’s seal shall be received in evidence in any court, or before any person having authority by law or by consent of parties to receive evidence, as prima facie proof of all the matters contained in or entered on any instrument filed in the Land Titles Registry.

Amended by4/2012

(4)

Subsection (1) applies only to such electronic instruments as the Registrar may determine.