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Section 220

Ordinance and subsequent instruments and entries

of Land Code, 1958

State OrdinanceIn forceProvision 185 of 209
Section 220

⎯(1) Any document of title duly registered under the provisions of the former Land Ordinance [Cap. 27 (1948 Ed.)] and not brought on to the Register under section 112(3) or (4) shall, subject to the other provisions of this Code, have the same force, effect and protection as if this Code had not been passed.

(2)

Subsection (1) shall apply also to documents of title issued, and to entries made, after the 1st day of January, 1958, unless and until they have been registered in the Register pursuant to section 112

(3)

or (4).

In cases where a registration should not form part of the Register the Registrar shall enter a caveat and give notice of the effect thereof 221.⎯(1) In any case in which it appears to the Registrar that the registration of any estate or interest in land, or any previous register or any entry relating thereto, should not form part of the

Register by virtue of section 112(6), he shall enter a caveat prohibiting any dealing with, and any registration against, that estate or interest.

(2)

The Registrar shall by notice in the Gazette, and also by notices posted on or near the land to which the notice relates, in such languages as he may consider appropriate state⎯

(a)

that such caveat as is mentioned in subsection (1) has been entered; and

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(b)

that, if such caveat remains on the previous register for more than a year from the date upon which it was first entered, the registration in the previous register which led to the entering of the caveat shall be cancelled.

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The Registrar shall also enter a caveat and give notice stating the effect thereof if a registration has been included in the Register in contravention of section 112(6)