Singapore legislation
Regulation 43
Regulation 43
Defunct entries
Subregulation 1
Any proprietor claiming that an entry in the land-register has ceased to affect his land may request the Registrar to exercise the power of cancellation conferred on him by section 29(8) of the Act.
Subregulation 2
The Registrar shall not be bound to comply with such request unless he is satisfied that no other method of disposing of the entry in question is reasonably practical.
Subregulation 3
Whenever the Registrar endorses a discharge of mortgage, or a surrender of lease or any other entry in the land-register, whereby some previous entry ceases to affect the land to which it related, he shall —
in the case of a manual folio, stamp on that previous entry the word “discharged”, “surrendered”, “cancelled” or any other appropriate word, as the case may be, but in such manner as to leave that previous entry legible; and
in the case of a computer folio, make an entry in that folio to the effect that the mortgage, lease or previous entry has been discharged, surrendered or cancelled.