Clause 72

Section 159 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsections (6) and (7) and substituting the following subsections:“(6) Any person having custody of a certificate of title, subsidiary certificate of title or duplicate lease required for correction may be summoned by the Registrar to deliver that certificate of title, subsidiary certificate of title or duplicate lease to him, and upon that person refusing or neglecting to do so, the Registrar may apply to the court for an order requiring that person to show cause why the certificate of title, subsidiary certificate of title or duplicate lease should not be so delivered, and the court may make such order as the circumstances of the case require.(7) When any person so summoned neglects or refuses to show cause, or to deliver up the certificate of title, subsidiary certificate of title or duplicate lease, as directed by the court, the Registrar may, if the circumstances of the case so require, issue a new certificate of title or a new subsidiary certificate of title in the same manner, and having the same effect, as provided by section 43 in the case of certificates of title, subsidiary certificates of title or duplicate leases which have been lost, mislaid, destroyed or that are being improperly or wrongfully withheld.”.