REAL PROPERTY (REGISTRATION OF TITLES) ACT 1945 - SECT 21
REAL PROPERTY (REGISTRATION OF TITLES) ACT 1945 - SECT 21
21—Restrictions on issue of ordinary certificate of title
(1) The
Registrar-General shall not be bound on an application in that behalf to issue
an ordinary certificate of title, or to issue an ordinary certificate of title
in lieu of a certificate of title limited as to description of land—
(a)
until he is satisfied by the deposit of a survey plan, together with such
other evidence as he may deem necessary, or by some other means, that no part
of the land to be comprised in the ordinary certificate of title is held in
occupation adverse to the title of the proprietor named or to be named in that
certificate;
(b)
until he has given to the persons appearing to him to be occupiers or
proprietors of adjoining land such notices as he deems necessary of his
intention to issue an ordinary certificate of title, and until the expiration
of the time limited in any such notice.
(2)
The Registrar-General shall give notices as mentioned in subsection (1)
of this section in any case in which it appears to him that the land, or part
of the land, in respect of which an ordinary certificate of title is proposed
to be issued is included in the title of an adjoining occupier or proprietor
as evidenced by any instrument registered deposited or enrolled in the General
Registry Office or by any certificate of title limited as to description of
land.
(3)
The Registrar-General may from time to time, upon such evidence as he deems
sufficient, amend the description of land in, or the plan upon, a certificate
of title limited as to description of land, but not so as to exclude from such
description any land of which the proprietor named in that certificate is in
possession and to which he is rightfully entitled for the estate or interest
evidenced by that certificate.