17. Registration
Feedback & supportSubject to this Act and the rules, the Registrar must register all assurances and other instruments that are entitled to be registered under this Act which, or memorials of which, are presented to him or her for registration in the order in which they are so presented and must make such entries as are prescribed.
An assurance or instrument must not be registered under this Act unless it complies with the requirements of this Act and the rules.
assurance
“assurance” includes any conveyance, memorandum of charge or discharge, deed of consent to the discharge of a trustee, private Act, order of court or certificate of appointment of trustee in bankruptcy;
The register maintained by the Registrar for the purposes of this Act may be kept wholly or partly —
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Deeds and includes any Deputy Registrar of Deeds appointed under this Act;
on paper or microfilm, or in any other medium or a combination of mediums capable of having information recorded in or upon it or them; and
in a device for storing and processing information.
The Registrar may microfilm assurances and other instruments registered under this Act and any repealed enactment and dispose of them in such manner as he or she may think fit after they have been microfilmed.
repealed enactment
“repealed enactment” means the Registration of Deeds Ordinance 1886 (Ordinance XIII of 1886) or the Registration of Deeds Act which is repealed by this Act;