Deeds Registries Amendment Act 41 of 1977

Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 1977 (No. 41 of 1977)

Act

• to amend the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, so as:
  • to further regulate the preservation of records in deeds registries;
  • to provide for the reproduction of such records; and
  • to regulate the use of copies of such reproductions.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 25 March 1977.)

Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 3 of Act 47 of 1937, as substituted by section 2 of Act 87 of 1965.

1. Section 3 of the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, is hereby amended-

(a) by the substitution in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) for the words preceding the proviso of the following words:

"(a) take charge of and, except as provided in subsection (2) or (3), preserve or cause to be preserved all records which were prior to the commencement of this Act, or may become after such commencement, records of any deeds registry in respect of which he has been appointed:"; and

(b) by the addition of the following subsections:

"(3) The registrar concerned may reproduce or cause to be reproduced any record referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) by means of microfilming or any other process which in his opinion accurately reproduces any such record in such manner that any such reproduction forms a durable medium for reproducing and preserving any such record, and preserve or cause to be preserved such reproduction in lieu of such record.

(4) A reproduction referred to in sub-section (3) shall, for the purposes of a deeds registry, be deemed to be the original record, and a copy obtained by means of such reproduction and which has been certified by the registrar as a true copy of such reproduction shall be admissible in evidence and shall have all the effects of the original record concerned.''.

Short title.

2. This Act shall be called the Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 1977.

Commencement

13 April 1977