Section 136
⎯(1)
Subject to any rules made under section 213, the
Registrar may, upon such evidence as appears to him sufficient, correct errors or omissions in any document of title or other instrument, or in the Register, and may make any entry necessary to supply any such omission, and any errors so corrected or entries so supplied shall have the like validity and effect as if such error or omission had not been made, except as regards any entry in the
Register prior to the actual time of correcting that error or omission.
(2)
Where it appears to the satisfaction of the Registrar that⎯
(a)
any document of title or other instrument has been issued in error or contains any mis-description of land or of boundaries;
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(b)
any document of title, instrument, entry or endorsement has been fraudulently or wrongfully obtained, or is fraudulently or wrongfully retained; or
(c)
the production of any document of title or other instrument is required for the purpose of enabling the Registrar to exercise his powers under subsection (1), he may require the person to whom that document of title or instrument has been issued, or by whom it is retained, to deliver up the same for the purpose of being cancelled or corrected, as the case may require.
(3)
If any such person refuses or neglects to comply with any such request or cannot be found, the Registrar may apply to the High
Court to issue a summons for such person to appear before the Court and show cause why such grant, lease or other instrument should not be delivered up to be cancelled or corrected.
(4)
If such person, in answer to such summons as aforesaid, is unable to show cause or, when served with such summons, neglects or refuses to attend before the Court at the time therein appointed, or shall have absconded before such summons is served upon him, the
Court may direct the Registrar to cancel or correct any document of title or other instrument, or any entry in the Register relating thereto, and to substitute and issue such other document of title or instrument or make such other entry as the circumstances of the case may require.
TRANSFERS
Transfer by registered proprietor