Mining Titles Registration Act, 1967 (Act No. 16 of 1967)Chapter III : Registration : General Provisions15A. Proof of facts in connection with transactions in Mineral and Petroleum Titles Registration Office |
| (1) | A conveyancer who prepares a deed or other document for the purposes of registration, recording or filing in the Mineral and Petroleum Titles Registration Office, and who signs a prescribed certificate on such deed or document, accepts by virtue of such signing the responsibility for the purposes of this Act for the accuracy of the facts mentioned in such deed or document or which are relevant in connection with the registration or filing thereof. |
| (2) | The provisions of subsection (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to any person other than a conveyancer, who is prescribed by regulation, and who has in accordance with the regulations prepared a deed or other document prescribed by regulation for registration, recording or filing in the Mineral and Petroleum Titles Registration Office. |
| (3) | The Director-General shall accept, during the course of his or her examination of a deed or other document in accordance with the provisions of this Act, that the facts referred to in subsection (1) in connection with the registration, recording or filing of a deed or other document in respect of which a certificate referred to in subsection (1) or (2) has been signed, have for the purposes of such examination been conclusively proven. |
| (4) | Subsection (3) shall not derogate from the obligation of the Director-General to give effect to any order of court or any other notification recorded in the Mineral and Petroleum Titles Registration Office in terms of this Act or any other law, and which affects the registration, recording or filing of such deed or other document. |
[Section 15A substituted by section 17 of Act No. 24 of 2003]