CO129-595-5 Validity of registration of land during Japanese occupation 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946 — Page 18

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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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