NT Registration Act 1879 (SA)

.A N NO 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:

'' 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

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 ~nte~re ta t ion.

the following meanings, that is to say-

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,

Branch officc,

Palmerston. 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.

Deputy-Registrar to

preside. 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. ,

Oath of 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 Nor th~rn

'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& offices, and the Dcpnty-Registrar may alter m y pr~scribcd form so as to

office.

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 uiy Acts providing for or	1
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

du licate and one part 8. The memorial of every instrument presented at the branch office

to ge fnrvRrdcd to the or offices for registration shall be in duplicate, and the Deputy-Registrar

registrationofficc.

at thcendcf 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.

In the name and on bcllrtlf of Her Majcsty, I hcreby assent

to this Bill.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Gavcnkor.	1
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Adelaide: By authority, E. S~ILLER, Acting Government Prlnter, NortLtorracc.