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Land Registration.
Penalty for destroying memorial, etc., with intent to defraud.
24. If the Land Officer or any clerk or person whosoever wilfully destroys, embezzles, or secretes, forges, counterfeits, razes, defaces, or alters any memorial or any part thereof, or any indorsement thereon, or any entry or registry thereof in any book in the said office, with intent to defraud or injure any person, such Land Officer, clerk, or person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
Verification of correction in memorial of registry.
23 of 1938, s. 2.
Fees
9 of 1950, Schedule.
37 of 1950, Schedule.
25. Any correction by erasure, interlineation, or otherwise in any memorial of the registry of any document, shall be noted and set forth at length in red ink in the margin of the memorial wherein it is made, together with the reasons for making the same, and shall be attested and verified by the signature of the Land Officer.
26. Any assistant land officer acting in the place or on behalf of the Land Officer shall have the same duties and powers as are given by this or any other Ordinance to the Land Officer.
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27. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations as to the fees to be taken in the Land Office.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3), the true consideration shall be stated in all documents registered in the Land Office.
(3) Where the amount or value of the consideration money is not stated in any deed, assignment, mortgage or other instrument tendered for registration in the Land Office, or where no consideration money or merely nominal consideration money passes thereunder, the value of the property, to which such deed, assignment, mortgage or other instrument relates, shall be determined by the Land Officer and the like fees shall be paid as if the value so determined were the amount or value of the consideration money.
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