Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

SR&O 1/1956

RECORDING OF DOCUMENTS REGULATIONS 1965

[made 1 June 1965 under section 5 of the Registrar-General (Recording of Documents) Act 1955 [title 28 item 2] and brought into operation on 1 June 1956 by GN 151/1956]

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Citation

2 Requirements for regis tration

3 Authorised officers

4 Metric measurements

Citation

1 These Regulations may be cited as the Recording of Documents Regulations 1956.

Requirements for registration

2 (1) All documents submitted to the Registrar-General for recording or registration under the Registrar-General (Recording of Doc uments) Act 1955 [title 28 item 2] shall conform to the following require ments—

(a) they shall be on paper the measurements of which are fourteen inches by eight and one-half inches;

(b) the paper shall be twenty-eight pound ledger stock;

(c) the paper shall be punched to accommodate a four prong binder, four and three-sixteenths of an inch cen tre to centre inside prongs and eight inches centre to centre outside prongs;

(d) they shall be in typescript or print;

(e) they shall be prepared as head to head, that is to say when inserted in binders each reverse folio must read in the same head to tail sequence as the face folio;

(f) they shall be in a clean and untorn condition; and

(g) they shall have a margin of one and a half inches on the left hand side of each face of each folio running from head to tail.

(2) (a) The form of documents in respect of memoranda relating to mortgages, the acquisition of land and voluntary con veyances shall be in Forms A, B and C respectively in the Schedule. The headings on the said forms shall be spaced in conformity with specimen copies obtainable from the office of the Registrar-general.

(b) The Registrar-General shall give three months' notice in the Gazette of any intended changes in the said forms, or of the intended introduction of any new form.

Authorised officers

3 Authorized officers for the purpose of the Registrar-General (Recording of Documents) Act 1955 [title 28 item 2] shall be the Senior Clerk in the office of the Registrar-General or any other person autho rized in writing by the Registrar-General to the extent of such authoriza tion.

Metric measurements

4 All measurements in documents, including survey plans made after 31 December 1979, and submitted to the Registrar-General for recording or registration under the Registrar-General (Recording of Doc uments) Act 1955 [title 28 item 2] shall be expressed in the International System of Units within the meaning of the Weights and Measures Act 1975 [title 28 item 17], that is to say in accordance with the metric sys tem of measurement:

Provided that —

(a) any such document in which measurements expressed therein are determined or derived from survey plans of
land, which plans were in existence prior to 1 January 1980, shall be permitted to be recorded or registered notwithstanding that such measurements are expressed in Imperial measures;

(b) any such document in existence prior to 1 January 1980 in which measurements are expressed in Imperial mea sures shall also be permitted to be recorded or regis tered.

SCHEDULE

Form A

MEMORANDUM OF MORTGAGE

(State whether first or subsequent Mortgage or Further Charge)

DATE:

MORTGAGOR (S) :

(add address if desired)

MORTGAGEE (S) :

(add address if desired)

SUM SECURED: $

RATE OF INTEREST: $

INTEREST COMPUTED FROM (date)

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY MORTGAGED:

Form B

MEMORANDUM OF ACQUISITION OF LAND FROM AND/OR BY ALIEN

DATE OF ACQUISITION:

TRANSFEROR(S) :

NATIONALITY OF TRANSFEROR(S) :

TRANSFEREE (S) :

NATIONALITY OF TRANSFEREE(S):

ADDRESS ABROAD OF TRANSFEREE(S) (if alien):

MODE OF ACQUISITION:

ACCURATE AREA OF LAND ACQUIRED:

ESTATE OR INTEREST IN LAND ACQUIRED:

DESCRIPTION OF LAND ACQUIRED:

Form C

MEMORANDUM RELATING TO VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES

DATE:

GRANTOR (S) :

(add address if desired)

GRANTEE (S) :

(add address if desired)

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: