14. Form of register
Feedback & supportThe registrar shall keep a book, hereinafter referred to as the register, and shall upon the filing of any copy of a bill of sale enter therein in the form set out in the Third Schedule or in any other prescribed form the name, residence and occupation of the grantor, or, in case the same is made or given by any person under or in the execution of any process, then the name, residence and occupation of the person against whom such process was issued, and also the name of the person or persons to whom or in whose favour the bill is given and the other particulars shown in the said Schedule or to be prescribed, and shall number all such bills registered in each year consecutively according to the respective dates of their registration.
bill of sale
“bill of sale” includes bills of sale, assignments, transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, inventories of goods with receipt thereto attached, or receipts for purchase moneys of goods, and other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities, or licences to take possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, and also any agreement, whether intended or not to be followed by the execution of any other instrument, by which a right in equity to any personal chattels, or to any charge or security thereon, shall be conferred, but does not include the following documents:(a)assignments for the benefit of the creditors of the person making or giving the same;(b)antenuptial marriage settlements;(c)transfers or assignments of any ship or vessel or any share thereof;(d)transfers of goods in the ordinary course of business of any trade or calling;(e)bills of sale of goods in foreign parts or at sea;(f)bills of lading, warehouse-keeper’s certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by endorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such documents to transfer or receive goods thereby represented;
Upon the registration of any declaration of renewal the like entry shall be made, with the addition of the date and number of the last previous entry relating to the same bill, and the copy of the bill of sale originally filed shall be thereupon marked with the number affixed to such declaration of renewal.
Upon the registration of any declaration of transfer or assignment of a bill of sale an entry thereof shall be made in the register over against the last previous entry relating to such bill of sale.