Statement of number of folios

(1) The Registrar shall not receive any document to be recorded in his office unless it is accompanied by a statement written on the back thereof or annexed thereto of the number of sheets of seventy-two words each contained therein, every figure therein being counted as one word. (2) Every person who misstates the number of folios contained in any document shall be subject, by way of penalty, to the payment of double fees on any excess in the number contained over that stated. (3) No document whatever shall be received by the Registrar for recording or otherwise being dealt with in the Registry unless the document contains on the back or at the foot thereof a statement– (a) by an attorney that it was prepared and drawn by him in his office as attorney for one of the parties concerned therein; (b) by an appropriate officer, that it was prepared by himself and not by some person not entitled to prepare or draw legal documents; or 46 (c) by an appropriate officer, in the case of a person unable to read or write, that it was prepared and drawn by him on behalf of the parties concerned. (4) No document which purports to create or transfer any interest in land not exceeding one hundred acres shall be received by the Registrar for recording or otherwise being dealt with in the Registry unless either there is attached to such document a statement in writing under the hand of the Commissioner of Lands and Survey either that the Minister under the powers conferred upon him by the Land Tax Act, has consented to the interest specified in such document being created or transferred and that any conditions to which such consent was made subject have been complied with or that the interest specified in such document does not require the consent of the Minister to be created or transferred under the provisions of the said Act or it is proved to his satisfaction that the interest is being created in favour of or transferred to a devisee by a CAP. 58. (5) No document which purports to create or transfer any interest in land situate outside the boundaries of a town as defined by the Land Tax Act shall be received by the Registrar for registering or recording or otherwise being dealt with in the Registry unless the document is accompanied by a certificate that the tax payable under the Land Tax Act in respect of the land to which the document relates has been paid, such a certificate being issued by the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys. (6) If the Registrar has reason to suspect that a document was prepared or drawn by a person not entitled to do so, he may withhold the recording or registration thereof until he can make enquiries upon the matter, and may refer any case for the directions of the Chief Justice. 47 (7) Every person who falsely represents that a document was drawn by him commits an offence and shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.