Singapore legislation

Section 134

of Land Titles Act 1993

Section 134

Lapsing of writs

(1)

Registration of a writ lapses, and the power of the Sheriff to execute registrable instruments pursuant thereto is extinguished, at the expiration of one year from the date of the registration of the writ, and the land thereupon ceases to be bound thereby.

(2)

Subsection (1) does not prevent the registration of a renewal of a writ, or of a second or subsequent writ issued on the same judgment.

(3)

Nothing in this Act enables a judgment creditor by a succession of writs on the same judgment to bind land for an uninterrupted period exceeding one year.

(4)

Upon the lapsing of the registration of a writ, the Registrar must, on an application made by the proprietor or of anyone claiming through the proprietor in an approved form, cancel the registration of the writ.

(5)

The lapsing of the registration of a writ does not prevent the registration of any instrument executed pursuant thereto and lodged for registration prior to such lapsing.

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