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In cases of error or fraud, the court may compel return of certificate of title to Registrar, etc

Cap. 327, s. 63 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) In case it appears to the Registrar that any certificate of title has been issued in error, or contains any mis-description of land or boundaries, or that any noting of any legal charge or incumbrance or otherwise has been made in error, either wholly or as to any part thereof, or that the certificate of title, or noting thereon, has been obtained by fraud, or that any certificate of title has been fraudulently obtained or is fraudulently retained, he may require the proprietor’s duplicate to be returned for correction, or to be delivered up to the true owner thereof and, if the person so required fails to return the proprietor’s duplicate, or to deliver it up to the true owner, the Registrar may apply to the court for a summons to bring the person before the court for examination. (2) The court may thereupon examine the person, and may direct the proprietor’s duplicate to be given up to the Registrar or to the true owner thereof, or may grant a warrant for searching for and recovering it. (3) If the said person refuses to be examined, or to deliver up the proprietor’s duplicate, or deliver it up to the true owner, either then or at any time ordered by the court, the court may commit the said person to prison for any term not exceeding six months.

Amended by: 10 of 1958

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