Whenever any instrument, caveat, surrender, discharge of encumbrance, decree of execution, or other document lodged for registration or in relation to any land, title, estate or interest, or in connection with any application or dealing is erroneous or defective, the Registrar may require the correction and re-execution or correction only, as the case requires, of the document to be made or procured by the person lodging it; and if, after notice in writing of the error or defect, he or she fails to procure the document to be amended if it is an instrument or an application to bring land under this Act within a period of three months, or if it is any other document within a period of twenty-one days from the date of notice, the Registrar may, if he or she thinks fit, reject the document, and notify that rejection to the person lodging the document, and thereupon half the fees paid on the lodging of the document shall be forfeited and paid into the Consolidated Fund, and the other half may be returned to the person lodging the document on his or her withdrawing it.