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Legislative Enactments REGISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS Marginal Notes 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Documents Ordinance. 2. Land registries. 3. Definitions of Land. 4. Duplicates to be transmitted to Registrar. 5. Registrar to bind all duplicates. 6. Meaning of " instrument" 7. Unregistered instruments void against subsequent registered instruments. 8. Meaning of affecting lands. [2, 18 of 2024] 9. Registration of notice of seizure. 10. Will when defeated by conveyance by heir. 11. Registration of lis pendens. 12. Books for registration of instruments affecting land. 13. Mode of description of lands in instruments. 14. Instruments to be registered in proper folio.[ 2,14 of 1974] 15. Method of registration. 16. [3, 18 of 2024] 25. Meaning of "instrument". [5, 18 of 2024] 26. Who may present instrument for registration. 27. Day book. 28. Return of instruments. 29. Land situated in several districts. [6, 18 of 2024] 30. Priority notices. 31. Seizure property notices. 32. Caveats. [2, 32 of 2022] 33. Cancellation of priority notices, seizure notices, seizure priority notices, caveats, and lis pendens. [3, 32 of 2022] 34. Damages for unreasonable priority notice, seizure priority notice, caveat, or lis pendens. 35. Correction of errors. [3,50 of 1982] 36. Grounds for refusing to register an instrument. 37. Reasons for refusal to be recorded. 38. Appeals against refusal. 39. Power for District Court to cancel registration. 40. Copies of damaged or illegible volumes or part thereof. [5,22 of 1958] [5,22 of 1958] 41. Indexes. [ 8, 13 of 1947] [7, 18 of 2024] 42. Searches and copies. 43. Evidence. 44. Destruction of priority notices. &c, alter expiry of registration. 45. Indemnity of Registrars. 46. Costs in suits against Registrar-General. 47. Defect in appointment of Registrars or procedure. 48. Fees. [4, 21 of 2013] 49. Power to make regulations. 50. Forms. [4, 32 of 2022]