Singapore legislation
Clause 36
Clause 36
Land-register as evidence
(1)
Every manual folio duly authenticated under the hand and seal of the Registrar shall be received in all courts as evidence of the particulars therein set forth and that the land therein comprised has been duly brought under the provisions of this Act and shall be conclusive evidence that the person named as proprietor therein or in any memorial thereon is, or was at the relevant time, entitled to the estate or interest in the land therein specified and described.
(2)
Notwithstanding section 35 of the Evidence Act [Cap. 97], a print-out of a computer folio which bears a facsimile of the Registrar’s seal shall be received in all courts as evidence of the particulars therein set forth and shall be conclusive evidence that the land therein comprised has been duly brought under the provisions of this Act and that the person named as proprietor therein or in any memorial thereon is, or was at the relevant time, entitled to the estate or interest in the land therein specified and described.
(3)
Where, in a manual folio or a print-out of a computer folio, the estate or interest of a registered proprietor is expressed to be subject to —
an estate or interest evidenced by an instrument;
a provision of an instrument; or
an enumerated provision of any Act,the whole of the contents of that instrument, provision or enumerated provision, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be set forth at length in the folio or print-out.
(4)
Where a copy of a manual folio duly certified by the Registrar as a true copy or a print-out of a computer folio bearing a facsimile of the Registrar’s seal is before a court in any action or suit, it shall have the same value in evidence as the original folio.
(5)
Where the Registrar is required by law to produce at any place or to any person a computer folio, he shall comply with that requirement by issuing a print-out of the computer folio and by causing the print-out to be produced at that place or to that person.