Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002
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Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937)Chapter 1 : Administration2A. Appointment of chief registrar of deeds |
| (1) | The Minister shall, in accordance with the Public Service Act, 1994 (Proclamation 103 of 1994), appoint a person who is holding, or who previously held, the position of a registrar of deeds, to be called the chief registrar of deeds. |
| (2) | The chief registrar of deeds shall, subject to the directions of the Minister, exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred upon, or assigned to, the chief registrar of deeds by this Act or any other law. |
| (3) | Whenever the chief registrar of deeds, because of absence or for any other reason, is unable to carry out the functions of that office, or whenever such office becomes vacant, the Minister may authorise any registrar contemplated in sections 2(1)(b) and (d), to act in the place of such chief registrar of deeds during the period of such absence or incapacity, or to act in the vacant office until the vacancy is filled, as the case may be. |
| (4) | The Minister may delegate any power conferred on him or her by this section, to the Director-General: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. |
| (5) | The provisions of section 2(2) apply with the necessary changes to the appointment of a chief registrar of deeds. |
| (6) | Any person holding, at the commencement of section 2 of the Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2024, the office of chief registrar of deeds, and who, on a date prior to such commencement ceased also to hold the office of registrar of deeds, shall as from that date, be deemed to have been appointed under this section as chief registrar of deeds. |
[Section 2A inserted by section 2 of the Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 20 of 2024), Notice No. 5649, GG 51730, dated 10 December 2024: Effective 10 December 2024]
