Registration of Title Act, 1942
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Exercise of powers of registering authorities. |
10.—(1) All or any of the powers and duties conferred or imposed on the central registering authority by or under the Principal Act or this Act may be exercised and performed by such other officer or officers attached to the central office as the Minister may from time to time authorise in that behalf. | |
(2) All or any of the powers and duties conferred or imposed on any local registering authority by or under the Principal Act or this Act may be exercised and performed by such other officer or officers attached to the relevant local office as the Minister may from time to time authorise in that behalf. | ||
(3) Sub-section (1) of section 11 of the Principal Act shall (notwithstanding the repeal thereof by this Act) be deemed to have been amended, as from the commencement of Part I of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924), by the substitution of the expression “the Minister for Justice” for the expression “the Land Judge” wherever the latter expression occurs therein, and accordingly every nomination made by the Minister, after the commencement of the said Part I and before the passing of this Act, of an officer in or attached to the central office to exercise and perform the powers and duties of the central registering authority or of an officer in or attached to a local office to exercise and perform the duties of the local registering authority shall be and be deemed always to have been validly made under the said sub-section (1) as so amended, and nothing done by any such officer by virtue of any such nomination shall be invalid or capable of being questioned on the ground that such nomination was invalid. |