15. Issue of qualified certificate of title
Feedback & supportUpon the endorsement on any conveyance registered under the Registration of Deeds Act of the certificate required by section 8(2) of that Act, the original conveyance shall be forwarded to the Registrar who may deliver it to the person entitled thereto, or he may elect to bring the land comprised therein under the provisions of this Act by issuing a qualified certificate of title as hereinafter directed.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Titles appointed pursuant to this Act.
The Registrar shall not bring that land under the provisions of this Act except where the conveyance has been made for value and where it purports to convey —
land
“land” means the surface of any defined parcel of the earth, and all substances thereunder, and so much of the column of air above the surface as is reasonably necessary for the proprietor’s use and enjoyment, and includes any estate or interest in land and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto. Subject to any provision to the contrary the proprietorship of land includes natural rights to air, light, water and support and the right of access to any highway on which the land abuts;
an estate in fee simple (whether at law or in equity);
the tenure created by a statutory land grant; or
the interest held under a lease from the Crown or the State having an unexpired term of not less than 21 years.
Subject to the provisions of this Division, the land in a qualified certificate of title shall be held and may be dealt with by the proprietor therein named in the same manner and subject to the same exceptions as similar tenures comprised in certificates of title which are not qualified.
When a qualified certificate of title has been issued, then, except as provided in subsection (5), the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269] ceases to apply to the land therein comprised and the Registrar shall cause an appropriate entry or endorsement to that effect to be made in the register kept under that Act.
The Registration of Deeds Act continues to apply to any disposition of an interest (other than the interest of the proprietor) which was subsisting in the land comprised in a qualified certificate of title at the date of issue of that certificate of title.
interest
“interest”, in relation to land, means any interest in land recognised as such by law, and includes an estate in land;
The Registrar shall cancel any conveyance pursuant to which he issues a qualified certificate of title and shall deliver the duplicate certificate of title and the conveyance to the person who, but for this Act, would have been entitled to the custody of the conveyance.[12
duplicate
“duplicate”, in relation to the land-register, includes any authorised form of duplication or reproduction;