Registration of Title Act, 1942
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Validation of the acts of certain persons. |
11.—(1) Every person whose name is set out in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act shall, as from the date mentioned in, the second column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such person's name in the said first column, be deemed to have been validly and effectually appointed under sub-section (5) of section 4 of the Principal Act, as adapted by or under subsequent enactments, to have the control and management under that sub-section of the local office in the county mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such person's name in the said first column. | |
(2) No act or thing done by any person whose name is set out in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act on or after the date mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such person's name in the said first column and before the passing of this Act in execution or purported execution of the functions or duties of a local registering authority under the Principal Act in the county mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such person's name in the said first column shall be invalid, ineffectual, or open to challenge merely on the ground that such person had not been validly appointed to be the local registering authority in that county. | ||
(3) It shall be lawful for every person whose name is set out in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act to continue, after the passing of this Act, to execute the functions and duties of the local registering authority in the county mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such person's name in the said first column until whichever of the following events first happens, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the Minister by writing under his hand terminates the right of such person to execute the said functions and duties, or | ||
(b) such person dies or resigns the right to execute the said functions and duties, or | ||
(c) the expiration of twelve months, or such longer period as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance shall in any particular case allow, from the date of the passing of this Act, | ||
and, on and from the happening of whichever of those events first happens, the county registrar for that county shall become and be the local registering authority for that county under and in accordance with section 9 of this Act. |