Powers and duties of the Registrar

(1) The Registrar shall exercise and perform the powers and 13 (a) the Registrar of the Supreme Court established under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, Cap. 91; (b) Repealed. (c) Repealed. (2) The Registrar shall also perform all such duties and exercise all such powers as may be imposed and conferred upon him by this or any other Act or law. (3) Subject to this Act and the rules, the Registrar shall have the following duties– (a) to take charge of and preserve the records in the possession of the Registrar in the General Registry at the commencement of this Act; (b) to examine, certify and register or record transfers or leases and to issue certificates of (c) to examine, certify and register or record mortgage deeds and any assignment or cancellation thereof; (d) to examine and check and to satisfy himself as to the sufficiency and correctness of all titles relating to registered land tendered in support of any transfer, mortgage charge, lease or any other dealing provided for in this or any other Act; (e) to examine all descriptions of registered land dealt with so as to ensure that they are definitely and clearly set out especially with regard to locality, boundaries, area or any condition or limitation attached thereto, and to 14 see that each description has reference, if the Court or Registrar so requires, to a plan, map or diagram thereof recorded in the Department of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys or in the Registry, and to do everything necessary to obtain a full and complete identification of the property or right therein forming the subject of the dealing; (f) to register or record assignments, bonds, cancellations, cessions, contracts, deeds, donations, inventories, memoranda, plans, maps or diagrams, powers of attorney, security, bonds, substitutions and all other documents required by any law to be registered or recorded; (g) at the request in writing of the parties concerned, to record any deed cancelling in whole or in part, any registered bond, deed or document other than a certificate of title, lease, mortgage or charge, or record any deed releasing from the operation of the bond the whole or any part of the property or things thereby charged or bound; (h) to register or record assignments of mortgage deeds; (i) to register, note or record in the proper books against any property registered in the Land Titles Register any lease, mortgage or other charge, easement, right, privilege or other registrable incumbrance; (j) to make all indorsements and annotations required by law on any certificate of title, deed or other instrument filed as of record in the 15 (k) to keep all such registers, including the Land Titles Register and the Land Charges Register, as may be necessary for the due performance by him of any of his duties aforesaid and for the establishment of an efficient system of registration and recording and the securing of the proper registration of titles to, and incumbrances on, land; (l) to keep a register of all orders of court served upon him affecting the transfer of rights registered or recorded in the Registry; (m) to make a return to the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys of all transfers, mortgages or leases made under the provisions of this or any other Act which affect land held under title from the Government; (n) to permit members of the public upon payment of the prescribed fees to have any inspection of records and to obtain from the Registry any copies of and information concerning them allowed by law, rule or regulation under this or any other Act; (o) generally, to exercise all powers and discharge all duties, including the drawing of any instrument or document afore-mentioned or any other document, by law or custom exercised by and required of and from the