3. Reconciliation with existing laws
Feedback & supportExcept as hereinafter provided, all Acts, regulations, rules, and other laws, and all practices, relating to estates and interests in land and operative at the commencement of this Act, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act in their application to registered land, are hereby repealed.
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;
Nothing in this Act affects the right of the Collector of Land Revenue, or of any other person or authority empowered by any written law, to enter on registered land pursuant to such a power.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269] does not apply to registered land.
registered land
“registered land” means land which has been brought under the provisions of this Act by being included in a folio of the land-register;
This Act binds the Government.