17. Inspection of register and office copies
Feedback & supportAny person shall be entitled to have an office copy of or extract from any registered bill of sale and declaration of execution filed therewith, or registered declaration of renewal, upon paying for the same at the rate of twenty-five sen for every folio of one hundred words or at such other rate as may be prescribed, and every such copy shall be prima facie evidence of the original and of the fact and date of registration as shown thereon.
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;
Any person shall be entitled at all reasonable times and subject to such rules as may be prescribed—
to search the register on payment of a fee of one ringgit or such other fee as may be prescribed;
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on a like payment in respect of each bill of sale inspected, to inspect, examine and make extracts from any registered bill of sale:
Provided that such extracts shall be limited to the dates of execution, registration, renewal of registration, and satisfaction, to the names, addresses, and occupations of the parties, to the amount of the consideration, and to any further prescribed particulars.