Section 31: Effect of Lodging Documents Under 1908 Ordinance
31.Effect of lodgment of instrument affecting land registered under Ordinance 11 of 1908
Where, after the commencement of this Act, an instrument affecting land or any interest in land, the title to which is registered under the Registration of Land Titles Ordinance, 1908, is presented for registration, that instrument shall have the same effect and shall be treated in the same manner as an application under section 29 as to the whole of the land comprised in the title affected, and upon the receipt of any such instrument the Registrar shall—
(a)register the instrument in the proper folium of the register of titles kept under the Registration of Land Titles Ordinance, 1908; and
(b)proceed as directed in section 30.
Plain English Summary
You must treat an instrument affecting land that is already registered under the old 1908 Ordinance as if it were a new application under Section 29 o...
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