Section 10: Registration Book
consolidated text (as at 2000). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
10. Registration Book
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, the Visiting Magistrate
shall exercise, in Agaléga, the powers of the Registrar-General.
(2) The Visiting Magistrate shall keep a Registration Book, the pages of
which shall be numbered and authenticated by the Registrar-General.
(3) The Visiting Magistrate shall enter in the Registration Book a full and
precise statement of—
(a) (i) the nature and purport; and
(ii) the date,
of every document presented to him for registration in Agaléga;
and
(b) the names and description of all parties to the document.
(4) The Visiting Magistrate shall endorse a document registered under
subsection (3) with a certificate that the document has been registered, and
showing the date of the registration.
(5) Notwithstanding any other enactment, every document presented for
registration under this section shall be registered free of charge.