12. Transfers need not be attested
Feedback & supportA transfer or assignment of a registered bill of sale need not be attested under this Act, but the transferee or assignee of such bill of sale must, within seven clear days after the execution of such transfer or assignment, file with the Registrar or Assistant
bill of sale
“bill of sale” includes bills of sale, assignments, transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, inventories of goods with receipt thereto attached, or receipts for purchase money of goods, and other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities or licences to take possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, and also any agreement, whether *NOTE—All references to “West Malaysia” shall be construed as reference to “Peninsular Malaysia”– see the Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1997, subsection 5(2). intended or not to be followed by the execution of any other instrument, by which a right in equity to any personal chattels or to any charge or security thereon is conferred, but does not include the following documents— (a) assignments for the benefit of the creditors of the person making or giving the same; (b) ante-nuptial marriage settlements; (c) transfers or assignments of any ship or vessel or share thereof; (d) transfers of goods in the ordinary course of business of any trade or calling; (e) bills of sale of goods in foreign ports or at sea; (f) bills of lading, warehouse-keepers’ certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by endorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such documents to transfer or receive goods thereby represented;
Registrar, as the case may be, a statutory declaration, in the form in the Third Schedule, stating the date of the bill of sale and of the last registration thereof, the names, residences and occupations of the parties thereto as stated therein, the names, residences and occupations of the parties to each transfer or assignment, and that such bill of sale is still a subsisting security, and shall also produce at the same time to the Registrar or Assistant Registrar, as the case may be, such transfer or assignment; otherwise such transfer or assignment shall be void.
Registrar
“Registrar” and “Assistant Registrar” mean respectively the Registrar and an Assistant Registrar of the High Court;