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Section 154: Powers of Registrar under Registration of Titles Act

154.Powers of Registrar

The Registrar may exercise and shall perform the following powers and duties—

(a)to lodge a caveat on behalf of the Government or on behalf of any person who is under disability of infancy, coverture, lunacy, unsoundness of mind or absence from Uganda, to prohibit the transfer or dealing with any land belonging or supposed to belong to any such person, and also to prohibit the dealing with any land in any case in which it appears that an error has been made by misdescription of the land or otherwise in any registered certificate of title or in any instrument, or for the prevention of any fraud or improper dealing;

(b)at his or her discretion, notwithstanding the non-payment of any prescribed fees, to effect any registration on behalf of or issue a certificate of title to an African of Uganda. Such unpaid fees shall, until recovered, be a first charge in favour of the Government upon the land comprised in the relevant certificate of title and that charge shall thereupon be entered in the folium of the Register Book constituted by the certificate of title. Any such unpaid fees may be sued for and recovered by the Registrar or any officer of the Government or of the administration of a district appointed by the Registrar in that behalf in any court of competent jurisdiction or summarily as a civil debt. Where the Registrar appoints an officer of the administration of a district as aforesaid, the amount due may be recovered by that officer in the name of the Registrar in a court constituted under the Magistrates Courts Act, notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in any other law; and

(c)where it appears to him or her that a caveator claims an interest in an unascertained portion of land within the meaning of section 122(1) and that survey of that portion is not likely to be delayed, to serve notice on the caveator requiring him or her to arrange for the survey of the portion he or she claims; and if the caveator neglects or fails to have the survey of that portion completed within a period of six months from the date of service of the notice or such further period not exceeding three months as the Registrar may in his or her discretion allow, his or her caveat shall lapse on the expiration of that period or extended period, and the Registrar shall remove the caveat from the Register Book.

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The Registrar of Titles has the authority to lodge a caveat on behalf of the Government or certain vulnerable persons—such as minors, married women, m...

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