Section 31Part 4 — Certificates and searches
Land certificates and certificates of lease
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31. (1) The Registrar shall, if requested by any proprietor of land or a lease where no land certificate or certificate of lease has been issued, issue to him a land certificate or a certificate of lease, as the case may be, in the prescribed form showing all subsisting entries in the Register affecting that land or lease: Provided that —
only one such certificate shall be issued in respect of each parcel of land or lease; and period exceeding twenty five years.
no certificate of lease shall be issued unless the lease is for a certain
A land certificate or certificate of lease shall be only prima facie evidence of the matters shown therein, and the land or lease shall be subject to all entries in the register whether they are shown on the certificate or not.
When there is more than one proprietor, the proprietors shall agree among themselves as to who shall receive the certificate, and failing agreement the certificate shall be filed in the registry.
The date of issue of a land certificate or certificate of lease shall be noted in the register.