Section 2, (Amendment) Act, 1964,

Section 4 of the Registration of Instruments Act is herebyamended by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1) of section 4 and the addition immediately thereafter of the following new subsections M.P. MF 64 " (2) (a) Every deed, contract or conveyance executed after the 1st day of June, 1964, shall be void, so ar as regards any land to be thercby affected, unless it is registered wathin the appropriate period limited for such registration under the proviso to subsection (1): Provided that any person prejudiced by the avoidance of any transaction under the provisions of this subsection may apply by originating summons to a Judge of the Supreme Court for permission to register after the expiration of the period limited for registration, and if the Judge 1s sat1sfied that either (i) the failure to register was not due to any fault of the applicant, or (i) the applicant's failure to secure registration in time was, in all the circumstances of the case, excusable, he may permit the appicant to register out of tme and the transaction in question shall be deemed never to have been avoided and shall take effect as against other transactions affecting the same land from such date as shall seem to the Judge to be just. (b) This subsection shall not apply to any transactions relating to land in the Provinces except leases entered into under the provisions of the Pro vinces Land Act. (3) On the registration of every transaction under subsection (2) there shall be paid to the Registrar General a Land Registration Taxat the following rate for all land affected by the transaction proportionately at the following rate per acre £50 0 0.". Passed in the House of Representatives this 28th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.