Singapore legislation
Clause 29
Clause 29
Folios of land-register
(1)
The Registrar shall create a folio for any land by making a record of —
a description of the land and of the estate or interest therein for which it is created;
a description of the proprietor for the time being of the estate or interest and such other particulars as the Registrar thinks fit; and
such particulars, as the Registrar thinks fit, of —
other estates or interests, if any, affecting the land; and
other information, if any, that relates to the land or any estate or interest therein and is included in that record pursuant to this Act or any other written law or an instrument made under such written law,and by allocating a distinctive reference to the record so made.
(2)
The Registrar may at any time create a new edition of a folio showing only subsisting entries and omitting therefrom all entries that have been determined or have ceased to have any effect.
(3)
Where a person is registered as proprietor of a lease registered under this Act, the Registrar may, if he thinks fit, create a folio or folios for the estate or interest of that person in some or all of the land leased and may, for the purposes of this subsection, require the production to him of the duplicate registered lease.
(4)
The Registrar may, if he thinks fit, create a new folio or new folios for the whole or any part of the land comprised in one or more of the folios.
(5)
The Registrar may create a folio in respect of several parcels of land that are not contiguous if, in his opinion, the relative positions of those parcels can be sufficiently and conveniently shown on the plan filed with and approved by the Chief Surveyor.
(6)
Where two or more parcels of registered lands are intended to form the common property of one or more subdivided buildings, the Registrar may, notwithstanding sections 8 to 13, 19 and 21 to 23, on an application made in the approved form by the proprietor of those adjoining parcels of land, create a single folio, qualified or unqualified, as the case may be, for those parcels of land even though they may be of different tenure.
(7)
Where, under this Act, the Registrar creates a new folio for land comprised in a previously created folio, he shall cancel the previously created folio and may, for the purposes of this subsection, require the production to him of any certificate of title or duplicate registered dealing.
(8)
The Registrar shall have, and shall be deemed always to have had, power to cancel in such manner as he considers proper any entry or notification in the land-register that he is satisfied does not affect the land to which the entry or notification purports to relate.
(9)
The Registrar shall maintain a record of all dealings recorded in, or action taken in respect of, a computer folio and such other information, if any, relating to the folio as he thinks fit.