Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Instruments Act 1958 - SECT 78

Receipt to be indorsed on mortgages

78. Receipt to be indorsed on mortgages

Upon the registration of every such agreement as is referred to in this Part
and of every mortgage of stock the proper officer shall indorse thereon
respectively a receipt for the same in which shall be specified the certain
day hour and time on which the same has been registered or filed; and the
Registrar-General or other proper officer in that behalf shall then attach his
signature to the said receipt; and every such receipt so indorsed and signed
shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registration of such agreement
or mortgage and of the time when the registration took place.