No. 135.

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QUADRAGESIRSO SECUNDO ET QUADRAGESIMO TEETIO

No. 135.

An Act to provide for the Registration in the Northern Tcrritoiy of certain Chattcl Securities.

HEREA S

thc distance between the Northern 'l'erritory and the ^Preamble.

W

registration ofice in Addaide renders it impossible to register chattel securities executed in tllc 'l'erritory within the time required

by

law, and it is exp~dient to obviate the inconvenience thus oc- casioned-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor ^of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Rouse of Assembly of the s ~ i d province in this present Parliament assembled, as follows :

1,

'This Act may be cited as ^" Northern Territory Hegistratioli short title.

Act."

2,

This Act shall be incorporated with Act No. 8 of

1841,

in- Inuorporatioo.

tituled

An

Act to provide for the registration of deeds,

wills,

,judgments, conveyances, and other instruments."

3, I n

the construction of this Act, the following words shall have ~ n t e ~ r e t a t i o n .

the

following meanings, that is to say-

''

Chattel securities" shall mean all warrants of attorney, cognovits, assignments, bills of sale, mortgages of sheep, cattle, or horses, and preferable liens on wool

which,

after this Act shall come into operation, shall be given or executed b j any party thereto in the Northern Territory:

Registration

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Branch officc, Palmerston.

Deputy-Registrar to preside.

Oath of office.

Northern

Territory

Registration

Act.-1

879.

"

Registration

Act "

shall mean the

Act

referred to

in

section

2

: Registration office

"

shall mean the registration office establishcd

by the registration Act :

'c Branch office" shall mean the branch registration officc cstab- lished by this Act,

4. It

shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation in the Goveuzment Gazette, to establish at Palmerston, niid other places in the Northern Territory, a public office or officcs for

the

of chattel securities, and such office or offices shall be deemed to be a branch or b~anches of the registration office.

5,

The branch office or offices shall be presided over by a Deputy.

Registrar to be appointed by the Governor, and such Deputy-Registrar shall in the branch office exercise and execute in relation to chattel

s ~ c u r i t i ~ s the

likc

powers and duties as aTe

exercised

and crecuted by

,

the Registrar-General in the Registl-ation Office.

6.

The oath of office provided for by Section

11,

of the Registration Act ma.j be taken by any Deputy-Registrar appointed for the pur- poses of this Act before the Govc.rn1ncr.t-Eesidcnt in the N o r t h ~ r n 'l'crritory or any stipendiary magistrate who is hereby crnporvcrcd and required to adrninistcr the same.

Chattel securities ma

7. All

chattel securities

may

be rcgistered in the branch oEce or

be registered i~ bran&

office. offices, and the Dcpnty-Registrar may alter m y pr~scribcd form so as to meet thc circun~stances of the case, and whm so registrred within tllc time provided by lam, every chattel sccurity shall be deemed to be

duly registered for nli the purposcs of u i y Acts providing for or

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relating to the registration thereof, or which mould otherwise affect the same; a i d all the provisions of all such Acts, so far as the same can relate to chattel securitlcs, shall apply to the branch office.

Memorials to be in

8.

The memorial of every instrument presented at the branch office

du licate and one part

to

ge

^{fnrvRrdcd to the} or offices for registration shall be in duplicate, and the

Deputy-Registrar

registrationofficc. at t h c e n d c f evervcaiendar1nonthsh;~U forward to the Registrar- General at the reghretion office onc part of such mmno~ial markeked with a memorandum of the timo and number of the r~gistsation there- of in the branch office or officcs, and the same shall be filed, indesecl, prcservcd, and kcpt opcn for

inspection

with the memorials of similar instrum&ts rcgistercd in the

registration

ofice, ^01. in a scporatc book, but in u similar manncr, whic1~e~-cr

may

be deemccl nmt, convcnicnt by the I.tcgistrar-General.

I n the name and on bcllrtlf of Her Majcsty,

I

hcreby assent to this Bill.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Gavcnkor.

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Adelaide : By authority, E. S~ILLER, Acting Government Prlnter, NortLtorracc.