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Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Act, 2019 (Act No. 19 of 2019)

2. Development, establishment and maintenance of deeds registration and recordal system

[Section 2 heading substituted by schedule (2) of Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 20 of 2024), Notice No. 5649, GG51730, dated 10 December 2024]

 

(1) The Chief Registrar of Deeds must, subject to the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, develop, establish and maintain the electronic deeds registration and recordal system using information and communications technologies for the preparation, lodgment, registration, recordal, execution and storing of deeds and documents.

[Section 2(1) substituted by schedule (2) of Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 20 of 2024), Notice No. 5649, GG51730, dated 10 December 2024]

 

(2) In achieving the objectives contemplated in subsection (1), the Chief Registrar of Deeds may, after consultation with the Regulations Board referred to in section 9 of the Deeds Registries Act, issue directives for—
(a) the functional requirements of the electronic deeds registration and recordal system;
(b) the technical specifications for the electronic deeds registration and recordal system;
(c) the specifications for the interface between the electronic deeds registration and recordal system and any party interfacing in the system which will be authorised to access the electronic deeds registration and recordal system;
(d) the standards governing the information security of the electronic deeds registration and recordal system;
(e) the operation of the electronic deeds registration and recordal system;
(f) the processing of deeds and documents using the electronic deeds registration and recordal system;
(g) the retention and subsequent production of deeds and documents, or any other electronic records, which may be pertinent to the registration and recordal of rights in the deeds registry or that may be required for the administrative or legal proceedings that must be complied with by users interacting with the electronic deeds registration and recordal system; and
(h) any other matter specifically provided for in this Act.

[Section 2(2) substituted by schedule (2) of Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 20 of 2024), Notice No. 5649, GG51730, dated 10 December 2024]

 

[Section 2 shall come into operation on 2 December 2019, per Proclamation No. 59, GG42871, dated 29 November 2019]