Section 12

The Registrar and every Senior Assistant Registrar shall, upon application whether made orally or in writing by any person desirous of obtaining information respecting any specified document deposited in the office of the Registrar or Senior Assistant Registrar or as to the deposit or otherwise of a document of any specified tenor and on payment of the prescribed fee, furnish, to the best of his ability, to such person the information applied for:

Provided always that any copy of a document supplied for the purpose of furnishing such information shall be paid for separately under section 9.