Singapore legislation
Clause 30
Clause 30
New folios of land-register
(1)
The Registrar may create a new manual folio in the following cases:
where, in the opinion of the Registrar, it is impracticable to make further endorsements on an existing manual folio; and
where the certificate of title of the land comprised in an existing manual folio has been mutilated or defaced or is in such condition that, in the opinion of the Registrar, it should not be delivered.
(2)
Where the land is comprised in a manual or computer folio, the Registrar may create a new folio —
where, upon registration of a transfer or transmission, the transferee or applicant has become the proprietor of an undivided share as tenant in common of the whole of the land in an existing folio;
where two or more parcels comprised in one or more folios have been amalgamated and allotted with a survey lot number by the Chief Surveyor;
where the proprietor of any land comprised in one or more existing folios has lodged the certificates of title thereof and has requested the Registrar —
to create a new folio for the land comprised therein;
to create new folios for separate parts of the land therein comprised in accordance with lots in any lawful subdivision or layout; or
to create a new folio comprising contiguous parcels in substitution for two or more existing manual folios;
in any other case where the Registrar is authorised or considers it practicable to create a new folio.
(3)
Upon the creation of a new folio, the Registrar shall cancel the previous folio and shall indicate thereon the serial number of the new folio or folios and the reason for its cancellation.
(4)
Subject to any agreement to the contrary, the proprietor in whose name a new folio is to be issued shall, as between him and any person with whom he has dealt, be liable for the cost of creating that folio.
(5)
A new folio created pursuant to this section may, if the circumstances so require, be qualified as to boundaries and dimensions and section 165 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply thereto.