(1)Upon registering a certificate of title, the Registrar shall endorse and sign upon the last in date of those documents registered under the Land Regulations, the Registration of Documents Ordinance, 1904, or the Registration of Documents Act, as shall have been lodged in support of the application a memorandum that land included in that document has been brought under this Act without specifying the land or referring to the certificate in which the land brought under this Act is included and shall forward a copy of the memorandum to the Registrar of documents who shall thereupon endorse and sign a like memorandum on the registered copy of the document; and if the documents lodged relate to any property other than the land included in the certificate, the Registrar shall return them to the applicant or to the person appearing by the applicant to be entitled to them; otherwise the Registrar shall stamp each of them as cancelled and after he or she has so stamped them shall retain them in the office; and no person shall be entitled to an inspection of the documents or to have any copy of them or extract from them without the written order of the applicant or of some person claiming through or under him or her or upon the order of the High Court.

(2)No action shall be brought upon any covenant or agreement for the production of the documents which are retained under subsection (1) or upon any agreement to give or enter into a covenant for the production of those documents; and if any such action is commenced, it shall be a sufficient answer to it that the documents are retained under this Act.