Section 293
Fees to accompany instruments so presented
of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)
(1)
Every instrument presented for registration under this
Part shall be accompanied by—
(a)
the prescribed registration fee, and
(b)
if it is presented more than three months after the date thereof, a delayed registration fee calculated in accordance with subsection (2), and, subject to paragraph (3)(b), any instrument which is not so accompanied shall, instead of being entered in the Presentation
Book pursuant to section 295, be returned forthwith to the person or body by whom it was presented.
(2)
The amount of the delayed registration fee payable in respect of any instrument shall be the amount of the prescribed registration fee multiplied by the number of completed periods of three months which have elapsed since the date thereof:
Provided that the said fee shall not in any case exceed five times the amount of the prescribed registration fee.
(3)
The Registrar may, if he is satisfied that good grounds exist for the delayed presentation of any instrument, or that it would for any other reason be just to do so—
(a)
refund, in whole or in part, any delayed registration fee tendered to him pursuant to this section, or 303
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(b)
direct the entry of the instrument in the Presentation
Book notwithstanding that it is not accompanied by any such fee, or by the full amount thereof, and the giving of any direction under paragraph (b) shall constitute a waiver of the fee in question or, as the case may be, of the amount underpaid in respect thereof.
(4)
No fee paid pursuant to this section shall be refunded otherwise than in the circumstances specified in paragraph (3)(a);
and where any instrument which has been withdrawn under section 296, or rejected in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 2 or Part Nineteen, is again presented for registration, no credit shall be given for any fee or fees paid on its previous presentation.