Registration of Deeds Act 1856

That on delivery of any such memorial as aforesaid, the said Registrar shall number the same according to the order of time in which it shall have been so delivered, and shall give a receipt for the same, in which receipt shall be specified the certain day and time of day when such memorial shall have been so delivered, and the proper number thereof given by the Registrar; and he shall also in like manner immediately endorse on the back of such memorial a certificate containing the day and time of day when the same was so delivered, and the name and place of abode of the person delivering the same; and shall sign the said certificate when so indorsed; and such certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registration, and the time of registration of every such judgment, deed, will, devise, conveyance or other instrument whereof such memorial shall be so made.

[Section 9 amended: No. 60 of 2006 s. 150(5).]