Deeds Registries Amendment Act 93 of 1998

The Deeds Registries Amendment Act 93 of 1998 intends:

• to amend the Deeds Registries Act, 1937,
  • in relation to acting appointments as chief registrar, registrar, deputy registrar and assistant registrar of deeds, and the minimum qualifications for holding any such office;
  • in relation to the instances in which deeds of grant by which State land is transferred must have diagrams of the land annexed thereto;
  • to adapt section 21 so as to make its provisions applicable also to cessions of rights to minerals that were assets in a joint estate;
  • in relation to the circumstances in which the title deeds of two or more pieces of land may be superseded by a certificate of consolidated title;
  • to provide for the reservation of a personal servitude in a deed of cession of rights to minerals;
  • in relation to the separation of rights to minerals from the ownership of land at the instance of the State;
  • to effect certain technical amendments; and
• to provide for incidental matters.

Commencement

2 November 1998