Certification to registration authorities
20 Certification to registration authorities
(1) A transferee or transferor may lodge with a registration authority a certificate certifying as to any information that may reasonably be required by the registration authority to enable the registration authority to exercise any of its functions arising in connection with a vesting under a vesting order.
(2) The certificate must be accepted and acted on by the registration authority.
(3) Despite anything to the contrary in any law, the registration authority is not entitled to require that information be provided to it in any particular form or in any particular manner.
(4) No fee or charge is payable by the transferee or transferor to a registration authority for or in respect of the exercise by it of any function mentioned in subsection (1).
(5) Unless the contrary is established, a document purporting to be a certificate given under this section is taken to be such a certificate and to have been properly given.
In this section:
registration authority means an entity that has functions under any law in connection with the keeping of a register in respect of assets, rights or liabilities.
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