REGISTERED LAND: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
APPOINTMENT
under s. 6
G.N. 131/1970
The Minister has appointed the person for the time being holding the office of Commissioner for Lands to be Chief Land Registrar for the purposes of the said Act.
ORDER
under s. 4
G.N. 129/1970
Constitution of the Lilongwe Land Registration District
sub.leg. p.14
The Minister has ordered that the area for the time being described in the Schedule to the Lilongwe Agricultural Development Area Order shall constitute the Lilongwe Land Registration District.
REGISTERED LAND (CAPITAL CITY OF LILONGWE LAND REGISTRATION DISTRICT) ORDER
under s. 4
G.N. 85/1983
This Order may be cited as the Registered Land (Capital City of Lilongwe Land Registration District) Order.
2. Constitution of the Capital City of Lilongwe Land Registration District
The areas specified in the Schedule hereto shall hereafter constitute the Capital City of Lilongwe Land Registration District.
para. 3
SCHEDULE
The areas designated as part of the Capital City of Lilongwe by the following Orders—
(i) Capital City Development Corporation Designation Order, 1968 (G.N. 160/1968);
(ii) Capital City Development Corporation (Supplemental Designation) Order, 1972 (General Notice No. 40/1972);
(iii) Capital City Development Corporation (Supplemental Designation) Order, 1977 (General Notice No. 86/1977);
(iv) Capital City Development Corporation (Supplemental Designation and Land Vesting) Order, 1980 (G.N. 132/1980);
(v) Capital City Development Corporation (Supplemental Designation) Order, 1984 (G.N. 88/1984).
ORDER
under s. 4
G.N. 51/1976
Constitution of the Blantyre Land Registration District
sub. leg.
p. A25
The Minister has ordered that the area for the time being within the boundaries of the City of Blantyre described in the City of Blantyre (Declaration of Boundaries) Order shall constitute a land registration district for the purposes of the Act. Such district shall be known as the Blantyre Land Registration District.
REGISTERED LAND RULES
under s. 157
G.N. 185/1970
114/1982
142/1983
15/1986
106/1995
8/2002
27/2011
These Rules may be cited as the Registered Land Rules.
A register shall be in one of the forms in the First Schedule to these Rules, with such alterations and additions consistent with the provisions of section 10 of the Act as the Chief Land Registrar considers necessary or desirable; the title number of a piece and of any lease or sublease of that piece, whether of the whole or part of the piece, shall be the registration section and the piece number together, where applicable, with—
(a) in the case of a sublease, a letter suffix unique to that sublease, and
(b) in the case of a lease or sublease of a portion of a piece, a subdivisional number unique to that portion,
and letters and subdivisional numbers shall appear in the order in which the respective interests were created.
A land certificate and a certificate of lease shall be in the appropriate form in the Second Schedule to these Rules.
The forms in the Third Schedule to these Rules shall, subject to section 103 of the Act, be used in all matters to which they refer.
(1) All forms shall be clearly and legibly completed in the English language with such alterations and additions as the Chief Land Registrar considers necessary or desirable. Instruments for which no form is provided or to which the scheduled forms cannot conveniently be adapted, shall be in such form as the Chief Land Registrar shall direct or allow, the scheduled forms being followed as nearly as circumstances permit.
(2) Every instrument presented for registration or filing in the Land Registry shall be on paper of durable quality and shall have endorsed thereon a certificate of preparation in the form set out in the Seventh Schedule signed by the person or firm presenting the instrument.
6. Verification of instruments
(1) In addition to the Registrar, the persons specified in the Fifth Schedule may verify any instrument for the purposes of section 105 (1) of the Act.
(2) A certificate for the purpose of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 105 of the Act shall be in the form set out in the Sixth Schedule which may be typed, or otherwise legibly incorporated in ink, on any instrument presented for registration.
The fees specified in the second column of the Fourth Schedule to these Rules shall be paid in respect of the matters specified in the first column of that Schedule:
Provided that—
(i) on fees shall be payable by the Government;
(ii) where a piece is identified by reference to more than one sheet of the registry map, the sheets required to identify that piece shall, for the purposes of any fee, be deemed to be one sheet only.
Where any fee is calculated ad valorem and no consideration is expressed in the instrument the value on which the fee is calculated…
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