REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 4A
Registrar-General--delegation and seal of office
REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 4A
Registrar-General--delegation and seal of office
4A Registrar-General--delegation and seal of office
(1) The Registrar-General may delegate any of the powers and functions of the
Registrar-General under this or any other Act, other than this power of
delegation, to a Deputy Registrar-General or member of staff of the
Department.
(2) The Registrar-General is to have a seal of office that bears
an impression of the Arms of the State of New South Wales and has inscribed in
the margin the words "Registrar-General, New South Wales".
(3) An instrument
or document issued by the Registrar-General or a Deputy Registrar-General,
acting or purporting to act under the authority of any Act, is not invalid
only because of--
(a) any irregularity in the manner or time of affixing,
impressing or printing the seal of the Registrar-General to or on the
instrument or document, or
(b) a failure to affix, impress or print the seal
of the Registrar-General to or on the instrument or document.
(4) All courts
and persons acting judicially--
(a) are required to take judicial notice of
the seal of the Registrar-General, and
(b) must, until the contrary is
proved, presume that the seal was properly affixed.
(5) The seal of the
Registrar-General may be affixed by electronic or mechanical means.
