Agricultural Holdings (Transvaal) Registration Act Amendment Act 19 of 1929

Agricultural Holdings (Transvaal) Registration Act Amendment Act, 1929 (No. 19 of 1929)

Act

to amend the Agricultural Holdings (Transvaal) Registration Act, 1919 (Act No. 22 of 1919).

Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows :-

Repeal of section six of Act No. 22 of 1919, and substitution of new provision.

1. Section six of the Agricultural Holdings (Transvaal) Registration Act, 1919 (Act No. 22 of 1919); is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor : 

6. (1) Where a certificate has been granted under section one in respect of any area of land, the owner of the land or any portion thereof may apply to the Minister for cancellation of the said certificate in respect of the whole area or of such portion thereof, as the case may be, and the Minister, on the recommendation of the Board, may cancel the certificate either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he may deem expedient.

(2) On cancellation as aforesaid, the land or portion thereof in respect of which the certificate has been cancelled shall cease to be subject to this Act and to the conditions, if any, imposed under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section two, except in so far as the Minister's order for the cancellation of the certificate may stipulate that the title of the land shall remain subject to any or all of the said conditions.

(3} The Registrar of Deeds shall, on production of the Minister's order of cancellation and on production of the title deeds of the land affected thereby, make on the said title deeds and on the duplicates thereof filed in his registry such endorsements, and in his registers such entries; as may be necessary to complete the record.

 (4) If any portion of the land in respect of which the certificate bas been cancelled has been transferred to the Governor-General nnder section three, the Governor-General may, on the application of the person by whom it was so transferred, cause such land to be retransferred to the said person, subject to such conditions as he may deem it expedient to impose.

(5) In the event of an owner of any land in respect of which or of any portion of which the certificate granted by the Minister has been cancelled under sub-section (1), applying for permission te establish a township on such land or any such portion thereof (as the case may be) under any law in force in the Province of the Transvaal, the administrator of that Province may, in approving of the establishment of a township and notwithstanding anything contained in any law, cancel any of the special conditions imposed by the Minister on cancellation of the said certificate and any of the conditions imposed by the Minister under sub-section (1) of section two, which have remained operative against the title of the said land or portion thereof in terms of the Minister's order of cancellation under sub-section (1), and substitute therefor such other conditions as he may deem expedient.

(6) On production of a certificate signed by the administrator giving particulars of the conditions which have been cancelled by him and of the new conditions, if any, imposed in lieu thereof, the Registrar of Deeds shall make on the title deeds of the land affected by the said conditions, and on the duplicates thereof filed in his registry, such endorsements and in his registers such entries as may be necessary to complete the record.

Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Transvaal) Registration Act Amendment Act, 1929.

Commencement

3 April 1929