Petroleum Products Act, 1977
R 385
Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937)Chapter VIII : Miscellaneous101. Special provisions relating to Vryburg deeds registry |
| (1) | The practice prevailing prior to the commencement of the Deeds Registries Act, 1918, in the deeds registry at Vryburg of transferring or mortgaging land held under a certificate of ownership issued by the Administrator of the territory known as British Bechuanaland prior to its annexation to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and which was declared by that Act to be legal and of effect, shall continue to be legal and of effect. Provided that— |
| (a) | the provisions of this Act shall apply in respect of any transfer, partition transfer, certificate of title, mortgage or other deed sought to be registered in respect of any land so held; |
| (b) | no transfer of or other form of title to or mortgage of any defined portion of a piece of land so held shall be registered unless the surveyor-general concerned has certified that the boundaries of such piece of land are correctly represented on the diagram thereof; |
| (c) | if the surveyor-general is unable to certify as aforesaid the provisions of sections forty, forty-one and forty-four shall mutatis mutandis apply, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law contained. |
| (2) | The provisional registration in the deeds registry at Vryburg of any cession or assignment of rights to unascertained or unsurveyed land, prescribed by Government Notice (British Bechuanaland) of the thirteenth day of November, 1886, shall continue to be of force in respect of land to which a right of ownership was acquired prior to the annexation of British Bechuanaland to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, until such time as a grant of such land has been registered. |
