New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 4A

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 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.