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entitled to them.
For the foregoing reasons this Society is of the opinion
that it should be provided by Legislation.
(1) That the entries in green ink in the Land Register
relating to transactions in land during the Japanese
occupation shall have no validity in law except as
notice of a claim by an alleged purchaser or reassignee
and that they shall operate as such notice for two
years at the expiration of which period they shall be
expunged from the register except in cases where an
action is pending when they shall be operative as
notice until determination of the action.
(2) Any purchaser or reassignee during the Japanese occupa-
tion shall have the right to call upon the Vendor or
reassignor to execute such deed as may be necessary to
perfect his title to the property and on the registra-
tion of such a deed, the entry in green ink relating
to that property shall be struck put.
(3) In cases where a property has been assigned more than
once, the purchaser shall have the right to call upon
the original vendor as well as all subsequent assig-
nors to execute the necessary deed, the original vendor
shall execute the deed as assignor and all subsequent
assignors shall execute the deed as confirmors.
(4) There shall be no further ad valorem stamp duty other
than a $20.00 deed stamp.
(5)
In the event of the vendor or reassignor not being
able to be found or being unwilling to execute the
Assignment, Reassignment or Confirmatory Deed at the
request of the purchaser or reassignee, the purchaser
or reassignee shall be at liberty to apply to the
Supreme Court for an Order appointing an Officer of the
Court to execute the Assignment, Reassignment or
Confirmatory Deed or in proper cases to apply for a
Vesting Order; the Court to give directions as to
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