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Penalty for destruction &c. of notices.
Mode of sending notices.
Information from property
owners.
Access to official records.
any other manner which is, in his opinion, desirable for
the purpose of bringing the contents of the document to the
notice of those interested.
Any failure to publish a document in accordance with
these rules shall not invalidate the document, but this
provision shall not relieve the registration officer from any
penalty for such a failure.
25. If any person without lawful authority destroys,
mutilates, defaces or removes any notice published by the
registration officer in connection with his registration duties,
or any copies of a document which have been made available for
inspection in pursuance of these rules, he shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
26. Any application or notice of objection which is under
these rules to be sent to the registration officer may be sent
to him by post addressed to him at his office.
Any notice which is required to be sent by the registration officer under these rules to any person shall be sufficiently
sent if sent by post to the address of that person as given by
him for the purpose, or as appearing on the lists, or if there
is no such address, to his last known place of abode.
27. The registration officer may require the owner or
occupier of any land or premises or the agent of such person to
give any information in his possession which the registration
officer may require for the purpose of his duties as registration
officer, and if any person fails to give the required information,
or gives false information, he shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.
Any notice requiring information under this rule may be
sent by post.
The registration officer shall, subject to such
directions as the Governor may give, have access without payment
of fees to the registers and records in the custody of the Land
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