Registration of Deeds Act 1856

That every such memorial shall as soon after the receipt thereof as practicable be carefully registered by the Registrar in regular succession as received, according to its proper number, in a particular book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall afterwards be by him deposited in some secure place in the Authority’s office, and there kept for future reference when required; and he shall also keep an alphabetical index of the districts, towns and places mentioned in every such memorial, and also a like index or indexes of the names of the several parties to conveyances and other deeds or instruments, and of devisors and devisees in wills, and of the plaintiff and defendant in case of judgments, with accurate references in all such indexes respectively to the number and page of registry of the memorial to which any entry in such index or indexes shall relate, which said book of registry and index or indexes shall, as well as all other books of registry and indexes relating to registrations made before the passing of this Act, be open at convenient times in the said office to the inspection of persons desirous of searching the same.

[Section 10 amended: No. 17 of 1974 s. 9; No. 60 of 2006 s. 150(6).]