Singapore legislation

Clause 13

Repeal and re-enactment of section 44

Section 44 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Disposal of antecedent documents of title following creation of folio44.—

(1)

Upon creating a folio for any land under the provisions of this Act, or where, in the opinion of the Registrar, documents lodged with the Land Titles Registry need no longer be retained, the Registrar —

(a)

shall return or deliver to the person from whom he received the documents of title or to any other person entitled thereto any documents of title lodged or deposited with the Registrar; and

(b)

may, in relation to any other documents —

(i)

transfer them to the National Archives of Singapore to be preserved for historical purposes; or

(ii)

subject to subsection (2), dispose or destroy them after having them microfilmed or imaged.(2) The Registrar shall not destroy any documents unless the National Heritage Board established under the National Heritage Board Act (Cap. 196A) consents to the destruction.”.

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