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Land Transfer Act 2017

Miscellaneous provisions - General provisions - Registrar-General of Land

236: Registrar may set standards and issue directives

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"The Registrar sets rules for land registration to help people follow the law."

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The Registrar can set standards and issue directives about how the land register is run. You need to know the Registrar can make rules about things like how practitioners do their jobs and how evidence is kept. The Registrar must talk to groups that will be affected by these rules and think about their comments before making them. The Registrar can make rules about things like what practitioners need to do and how to follow the law. You can find out more about what these rules are by looking at the standards and directives the Registrar makes. These rules are a type of law called secondary legislation, which you can read about in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The Registrar's standards and directives are important because they help people follow the law. When the Registrar makes these rules, they must make sure people know about them. This is so you can understand what you need to do to follow the law.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
General provisions: Registrar-General of Land

236Registrar may set standards and issue directives

  1. The Registrar may set standards and issue directives in relation to—

  2. the administration and operation of the register:
    1. dealings by practitioners and other persons authorised to give certificates under this Act:
      1. the retention of evidence under section 30 by practitioners and other persons authorised to give certificates under this Act for electronic instruments:
        1. requirements to be satisfied where another enactment provides for the registration or notation of any instrument or thing under this Act:
          1. compliance by any person with a requirement under this Act.

            1. The Registrar must not set a standard or issue a directive unless the Registrar—

            2. consults with any organisation that represents persons who will be affected by the standard or directive; and
              1. gives the organisation an opportunity to comment on the proposed standard or directive; and
                1. considers any comments made by the organisation.

                  1. The following are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements):

                  2. standards under this section:
                    1. directives under this section.

                      1. Repealed
                      Notes
                      • Section 236(3): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                      • Section 236(4): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).