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Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937)

Chapter IV : Townships and Settlements

46A. Special requirements in the case of subdivision into lots or erven of land in the area of deeds registry at Johannesburg

 

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 46, no general plan referred to in subsection (1) of that section in respect of land situated in the area of the deeds registry at Johannesburg shall be registered in terms of that subsection, and no register so referred to in respect of the lots or erven shown on such general plan shall be opened, unless the land subdivided forms the whole of the land held under the relevant title deed or forms a portion of land registered in the deeds registry at Johannesburg.

 

(2) When any such general plan is to be registered in respect of land situated in the area of the deeds registry at Johannesburg and registered in the deeds registry at Pretoria, the registrar at Pretoria shall, after the necessary examination and after having made the endorsements contemplated in section 46(3), furnish certified copies of the title deed of such land and of all other deeds and documents relating to such land and registered or recorded in his office, to the registrar at Johannesburg.

 

(3) The registrar at Johannesburg shall thereupon register the general plan and open the register contemplated in subsection (1) of section 46 in accordance with the requirements of that subsection and shall enter in his registers or file of record in his office, as the circumstances may require, the copies of the title deed, other deeds and documents furnished to him under subsection (2) of this section.

 

(4) In the application of any relevant law in relation to the land in question, a title deed, other deed or document of which a copy has in terms of this section been furnished to the registrar at Johannesburg and entered in his registers, shall be deemed to be registered or recorded in his office, as the circumstances may require, and any such copy shall in so far as may be necessary be deemed to be the registry duplicate of the title deed, other deed or document in question.

 

(5) If any land ceases to be land included in a township in the area of the deeds registry at Johannesburg, the registrar at Johannesburg shall furnish certified copies of the title deed of such land and of all other deeds and documents registered in his office and relating to such land and which may be necessary for the registration or recording of any further legal transactions in relation to such land in the deeds registry at Pretoria, to the registrar at Pretoria who shall, after making such endorsements as he may deem necessary on such copies, enter such copies in his registers, and thereupon the title deed, other deeds and documents shall be deemed to be registered or recorded, as the case may be, in the deeds registry at Pretoria.

 

[Section 46A inserted by section 5 of Act No. 16 of 1969]