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THE RECORD OFFICE ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
Appointment of Record OBcers
3. Keeper of the Records.
4. Appointment of Deputy Keeper of the Records and substitutes.
5. Appointment of Assistant Deputy Keeper of the Records.
6. Duties of Deputy Keeper.
7. Appointment and duties of other Officers.
Establishment of Record Ofice
8. Record Office to be established.
9. Powers to provide office.
10. Branch Offices.
11. Seal of the Record Office.
Rules of Record Ofice
12. Rules.
Custody of Public Records
13. Records of Island Secretary’s office.
14. Records of Superior Courts. And Wills.
15. Custody of other records.
16. Removal of records.
17. Validation of certain records.
18. Power to make transcripts of any old register books or index.
19. Examination of register book before it is transcribed.
20. cedfyhg Of tranSdptS.
Not to affect validity of records removed.
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21. Duty of Deputy Keeper of the Records as to all transcripts.
22. Transcripts so verified declared valid records.
23. Records certified under section 28 of this Act, declared valid
24. Provisions as to certifying any copy of a record not being a
25. Duties of the Deputy Keeper of the Records as to register books
His duties as to register books hereafter to be filled up.
records.
valid record.
fUed up since 1879.
Business of Record Ofice
26. Pre-requisites for recording deeds, etc.
27. Duty of officers and process of registration of deeds, receipts.
28. Examination and certiQing of records.
29. Procedure when deed or writing is not duly stamped.
30. Discharge to Deputy Keeper in respect of the custody of the
31. Keeping of indices.
32. Return of original deeds and writbgs after record.
33. Searches in Record Office.
34. Taking copies of records.
35. As to procuring office copies.
36. Office copies of records, how far evidawe.
37. Office copies of part only of recorded deed, etc.
38. Record of dockets instead of deeds at length.
39. Effect of recording a docket
40. Records specified in Second Schedule, validated.
41. Authentication of Liber 41 of Was.
etc.
unstamped record.
Validation thereof.
Miscellaneous
42. Expenses of carrying out this Ad, how paid.
43. Fees.
44. Deputy Keeper to report annually to the Minister.
45. Recovery of penalties
SCHEDULES
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cap. 335.
Law
52 of 1955.
Act
THE RECORD OFFICE ACT
42 i f 1969
[Ist February, 1879.1 3rd Sch.
1. This Act may be cited as the Record Office Act. Shorttitle.
2. In this Act- Interpreta-
tion.
“public records” includes all rolls, writs, books, proceed-
ings, Statutes, decrees, wills, warrants, accounts, papers
and documents of any kinds of a public nature,
deposited in any of the offices in this Act mentioned;
“registered deeds and writings” includes all deeds, wills,
conveyances, charters, bonds, bills of sales, patents,
certificates, letters patent, specifications, petitions,
declarations, disclaimers, memoranda, powers of
attorney, crop and other accounts, inventories, maps,
plats and all other instruments and writings whatever,
recorded in the Island Secretary’s Office before the
commencement of this Act, or in the Record Office
after the commencement of this Act;
“registers” includes all records and enrolments of registered
deeds and writings in the Island Record Office;
“record” includes both Public Records and registered
deeds and writings, as defined by this section, and
also transcripts of the same contained in any registered
book;
“register book” includes as well any book or volume in
the Record Office containing records, as any transcript
made or to be made of any such book;
“transcribe” and “transcript” include print and printed
copy;
“indices” includes all indices, abstract books and cata-
logues in the Record Office relating to Public Records,
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registered deeds and writings or registers, in the
Record Office;
“rules” means rules made by the Keeper of the Records
with the approval of the Minister pursuant to this
Act.
A p poin tmen t of Record Ofleers
3. The Chief Justice of Jamaica for the time being shall
be the Keeper of Public Records, and of registered deeds
and writings of this Island, and shall have the official title
of Keeper of the Records.
Keeper
Records.
of the
Appoint-
Deputy
Keeper of th
Records
substitutes.
4. The Governor-General shall from time to time appoint,
and may remove, a fit person duly qualified by his know-
ledge of law and of records to be the Deputy Keeper of
the Records, and may from time to time appoint, and
remove, a substitute to act in case of the illness or absence,
or during a vacancy in the office, of such person.
ment of
and
Appoint-
Assistant
Deputy
of the
5. The Governor-General may from time to time appoint
an Assistant Deputy Keeper of the Records, who shall
perform such duties as may be directed by the Deputy
Keeper of the Records, subject to any rule or directions
of the Keeper of the Records.
ment of
Keeper
Records.
Duties of
Deputy K eper.
6. The Deputy Keeper of the Records shall superintend
all persons employed in the execution of this Act, and
discharge such other duties as may be required of him,
subject to the directions of the Keeper of the Records.
Appoint-
dutiesof
other purposes of this Act.
7. The Governor-General may from time to time appoint
and remove such officers as he thinks necessary for the
Officers so appointed shall assist in the execution of this
Act under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of
the Records, and subject to the directions of the Keeper
of the Records.
ment and
officers.
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Establishment of Record Ofice
8. There shall be established a Public Record and pytobe
Register Office under the direction of the Keeper Of the established.
Records, to be called the Record Office.
9. The Minister may cause to be provided suitable Powersto
buildings for the safe keeping of all the records, and office.
registered deeds and writings, and registers and indices, in $:: lg.
the legal custody of the Keeper of the Records, and for
the convenient transaction of the business of the Record
Office.
provide
10. Every office and place in which Public Records Brancb
offices. which by authority of law are placed under the charge
of the Keeper of the Records are deposited shall be
deemed, so long as such Records remain therein, to be a
branch of the Record Office.
11. The Keeper of the Records shall cause to be made Sealofthe
Record a seal of the Record Office, with which all certified copies Ofice.
issuing out of the office shall be sealed.
Rules of Record Ofice
make and revoke rules in relation to the following matters
or any of them, this is to say-
12. The Keeper of the Records may from time to time R u b .
(a) the management of the Record Office;
(b) the duties to be performed by the Deputy Keeper
of the Records and other officers;
(c) the cleaning, repairing, arranging and preserving,
of the records under his charge;
(d) the registration and enrolment of deeds and writ-
ings, and the making of entries;
(e) the making and keeping of registers and indices;
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(f) the admission of the public to the use of the
records in the Record Office;
(g) the conduct of searches, and the making and
certifying of copies and extracts in the Record
Office;
(h) the fees to be paid in the Record Office;
( i ) the hours of business in the Record Office.
Such rules may provide that any person contravening
any provision thereof shall be punished on summary
conviction by a fine not exceeding ten dollars.
Such rules shall be subject to the approval of the
Minister, who may allow, disallow, alter, and add to such
rules, or any of them.
Copies of all rules under this section shall be exhibited
in the Record Office and its branches.
Custody of Public Records
13. All Public Records, and all registered deeds and
writings, and all registers and indices which at the time
of the commencement of this Act are or ought to be in
the office of the Island Secretary and which after the
commencement of this Act are lodged or kept in the
Record Office under authority of law, shall be under the
charge and superintendence of the Keeper of the Records.
Recordsof
Secretary’s
Island
office.
Recordsof
Courts.
And
14. All the records of the Supreme Court, in whatever
custody they are deposited, shall be under the charge and
superintendence of the Keeper of the Records.
All original wills of which probate or administration
with the will annexed is granted in the Supreme Court shall
be deposited and preserved in the Record Office as Public
Records.
Superior
52/1955
s. 2.
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15. The Minister may from time to time order that the Custody
Public Records deposited in any particular place or custody records.
shall be, and thereupon such Public Records shall be under
the charge and superintendence of the Keeper of the
Records.
The provisions of this Act shall apply in relation to
such records and their custody in the same way as if they ;2/:.955
had been placed under the charge and superintendence of
the Keeper of the Records by this Act.
of other
16. The Keeper of the Records may make such orders Removal
of records. as he thinks fit for the removal of records in his charge
from the place or custody in which they may be at the
time when they are committed to his charge to the Record
Office.
No such removal shall take place otherwise than on the
warrant of the Keeper of the Records directed to the
person having the records in question under his care.
Every such warrant shall be kept among the records
of the Record Office.
The removal of a record by authority of the Keeper of Notto
the Records shall not affect the legal authenticity, validity validity of
or effect of such document.
affect
records
removed.
17. Every volume in the Record Office in which shall Validation
of certain have been inserted within eighteen months after the 30th records.
day of November, 1887, and in the case of Liber 41 of
the Register of Wills within one month after the 15th day
of May, 1890, a declaration on oath by the Deputy Keeper
of the Records that the same is to the best of his knowledge
and belief a valid and authentic register book or transcript
of a register book, shall be deemed to be a valid, authentic
and effectual register book, and the deeds and writings
contained therein to be valid, authentic and effectual
records to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
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Power to
make
transcripts
of any old
register
books or
index.
Examina-
tion of
register
book
before it is
transcribed.
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18. The Deputy Keeper of the Records shall from time
to time with the sanction of the Minister, and under the
direction of the Keeper of the Records, cause the contents
of any register book or of any index that from age, use
or other causes, has become decayed and unserviceable,
with the omission, only in the case of any register book
more than sixty years old, of such matters as, under the
provisions hereinafter contained, may lawfully be described
instead of being transcribed, to be transcribed into a new
book to be provided for that purpose.
In making any such transcript one book only shall be
appropriated to the transcription of the records contained
in one register book, and the original paging of each
register book shall be preserved.
19. Before any such transcript is made the Deputy
Keeper shall go carefully through the records contained
in the volume to be transcribed, and shall, as regards all
or any of the following classes of records or parts of
records contained therein, that is to say-
(a) agreements or documents or parts of the same
relating to slaves;
(b) assignments of personal property;
(c) leases for a term which has expired;
(d) articles of partnership; or
(e) covenants for title,
direct that, instead of transcribing the same, the copyist
shall, in the appropriate place in the volume where such
record or part of a record would, if copied, appear, write
a description of the character of the said record or part
of a record; and in case it is a whole record that is thus
described instead of being transcribed, the date thereof
and names of the parties thereto shall be entered in such
form as the Deputy Keeper of the records shall direct.
It shall also be lawful for the said Deputy Keeper
(subject to the approval of the Keeper of the Records)
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from time to time to prescribe short forms of words, to
be used in making such transcripts as aforesaid, to describe
probates and receipts :
Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Keeper
of the Records, subject to the approval of the Minister,
from time to time to make and revoke or vary rules as to
the classes of records, in addition to those enumerated in
this section, which, in making any such transcripts as afore-
said, may be described instead of being copied as aforesaid.
20. Every transcript made of any record since the first Certifying
day of January, 1879, which shall purport to have been transcripts.
examined by the copyist, or by a clerk or officer in the
Record Office, shall be deemed to be duly certified under
this Act.
As regards transcripts made as aforesaid which shall
not purport to have been examined as aforesaid, and as
regards transcripts that shall hereafter be made of any
records, the Deputy Keeper of the Records, or some officer
to be appointed by him for that purpose shall carefully
examine every such transcript with the original record of
which it is the transcript, and shall certify under his
hand, at the foot of each such transcript, that he has
examined the same, and thereupon every such transcript
shall be deemed to be duly certified under this Act.
For the purpose of such certification as aforesaid it shall
be sufficient that the person to have made or to make the
examination aforesaid shall have written or shall write
the letters “exd.” or other letters or figures to denote the
word “examined”, and shall have signed or shall sign
his initials thereto.
of
21. Every completed transcript of any register book or Dutyof
part of a register book hereafter made, shall be carefully
examined by the Deputy Keeper of the Records; and the ;;fezds
as to all -transcripts.
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said Deputy Keeper of the Records shall see that the
register book of which the same is a transcript is a valid,
authentic and effectual register book in the Record Office,
that every record contained in such register book has been
transcribed, or, as to transcripts hereafter to be made,
that every such record has been either transcribed, or, if
omitted, that it has been omitted in accordance with
directions given by him, and that the records that have
been so omitted have been duly described in their appro-
priate places, and in the terms prescribed by him for that
purpose, and that the several transcripts of records have
been duly certified in the manner prescribed by this Act;
and the said Deputy Keeper shall cause to be written,
immediately after the last record contained in such register
book, or part of a register book, an affidavit (in Form A
in the First Schedule or to the like effect) that he has made
such examination with the result aforesaid, which said
affidavit shall be sworn to by such Deputy Keeper before
the Keeper of the Records, and be signed by such Deputy
Keeper and such Keeper, under a penalty not exceeding
one hundred dollars on such Deputy Keeper for every case
in which the provisions of this section are neglected or
disregarded.
Every such affidavit shall be made, as to transcripts of
register books made before the thirtieth day of November,
1887, within twelve months of such date, and as to
transcripts that shall thereafter be made, within three
months after the completion of any such transcript.
First
Schedule.
Transcripts
valid
22. Every transcript of any register book or part thereof
made after the first day of February, 1879, or that shall be
made after the thirtieth day of November, 1887, that shall
be verified by affidavit in accordance with the provisions
of section 21, shall be deemed to be a valid, authentic and
effectual register book, and the deeds and writings trans-
declared
records.
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cribed therein to be valid, authentic and effectual records,
to all intents and purposes.
23. Every record that shall be made and that shall be Records
certified pursuant to the provisions of section 28, shall be under
deemed to be a valid, authentic and effectual record within Fg:i:k
the meaning of this Act.
certified
declared
valid
records.
24. After the expiration of eighteen months from the Provisions
thirtieth day of November, 1887, the Deputy Keeper of certifying
the Records shall not certify under his hand, or seal with t:z;;$yof
the seal of the Record Office, any copy of any record in notbeing
the Record Office which is not a valid authentic and record.
effectual record according to law, without stating in writ-
ing, on each sheet of such copy, that the original record in
the Record Office is not a valid, authentic and effectual
record as aforesaid; and the Deputy Keeper aforesaid, if
he shall certify and seal as aforesaid, any copy as afore-
said without complying with the above provision, shall
for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding
two hundred dollars.
as to
a valid
25. The Deputy Keeper of the Records shall, within Dutiesof
carefully examine every register book that has been filled $2ids
up since the first day of February, 1879, and shall see that as to
every record therein contained that purports to have been books
certified pursuant to the provisions of section 28 has been f:2:y[79.
so certified by an officer duly appointed for the purpose,
and shall within the said period cause to be written,
immediately after the last record contained in each such
register book, an affidavit, in Form B in the First Schedule, First
that all the records contained in the said book purporting
to have been duly certified have been duly certified pur-
suant to the provisions of this Act.
twelve months after the thirtieth day of November, 1887, the K eper D puty
register
Schedule.
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His duties
as to
register
books
hereafter
to be
filled up.
First
Schedule.
Pre-
requisites
for record-
ing deeds,
etc.
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When any register book shall after the thirtieth day of
November, 1887, have been filled up, the said Deputy
Keeper of the Records shall carefully examine every record
contained in the said book, and shall see that each such
record has been properly certified as aforesaid, and shall,
within three months (or such other period as may be
sanctioned by the Keeper of the Records in any particular
case) after the completion of any such register book cause to
be written, immediately after the last record contained in
such register book, and affidavit in Form C, in the First
Schedule, and to the effect aforesaid, and the said Deputy
Keeper shall swear to each such affidavit, as aforesaid before
the Keeper of the Records, and such affidavit shall be
signed by such Deputy Keeper and the Keeper, under a
penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars on the said
Deputy Keeper of the Records for every case in which the
provisions of this section are neglected or disregarded.
Business of Record Ofice
26. No deed or writing shall be received into the Record
Office for record unless there is attached thereto a declara-
tion specifying, in such manner as may be prescribed by
rule, the number of words or other measure of the contents.
The declaration required by this section shall set forth
a postal address of the applicant, to which, subject as
hereinafter mentioned, the deed or writing may, after the
same has been recorded, be returned to the applicant
through the post by means of a registered letter.
The declaration required by this section may be taken
before the Deputy Keeper of the Records, or before any
Magistrate.
No deed or writing shall be received into the Record
Office to be registered unless it is duly stamped with such
stamps as are by law required.
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The time at which a deed or writing is received in the
Record Office for registration shall be deemed to be the
time of the recording of such deed or writing.
27. When any deed or writing which may lawfully be Dutyof officers and
registered in the Record Office is presented for registra- processof
tion, the Deputy Keeper, or the officer appointed for the ofdeedS. registration
receipts, duty- etc.
(a) shall receive the deed or writing, and give a
receipt for the same, which receipt shall contain
a notification that if application for the return
of the deed or writing be not made within two
months after the same has been recorded and the
record thereof examined and certified, it will be
returned to the party presenting it by registered
letter addressed to him at the postal address
furnished in the declaration;
(b) shall forthwith endorse the deed or writing with
the day and hour of presentation, and a number
denoting the order of presentment in the year;
(c) shall as soon as possible make an entry of the
deed or writing in a book or books to be kept in
the office to be called the Abstract Book; the
entry shall contain such particulars and be in such
form as may be prescribed by rules;
(d) shall as soon as conveniently may be, and in the
exact order of presentment, record the deed or
writing in a book or books, to be kept in the
office, to be called the Register Book and by such
further title as may be prescribed by rules:
Provided, however, that it shall be lawful for the Deputy
Keeper of the Records, in receiving such Expedition Fee
as may be prescribed by the rules, to record any deed or
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instrument otherwise than in the exact order of present-
ment :
Provided always that it shall be the duty of the Deputy
Keeper of the Records to record in the register book any
deed or writing presented for registration within ninety
days of the date of such presentment.
The number and classification of the register book shall
be such as may be prescribed by rules.
Exarnina-
certifying
Of
28.41) The Deputy Keeper of the Records, or some
officer to be specially appointed for that purpose, shall
carefully examine every record made in the register book
with the original deed or writing of which it is the record,
and shall certify under his hand at the foot of each record
that he has examined it with the original and that it is
a true copy.
(2) The officer to be appointed, under subsection (I),
for the purpose of examining and certifying records shall
be appointed by the Governor-General; and the letter
or other instrument appointing any such officer from time
to time shall be recorded before such officer shall enter on
the execution of his duties.
(3) If at any time after a record in a register book
has been certified under subsection (11, or after a copy of
a record has been certified under section 34, it shall be
discovered that a clerical mistake has been made in the
copying of the record, or of the office copy, the Keeper
of the Records, after such examination and enquiry as he
may deem necessary, shall direct the Deputy Keeper of
the Records to correct such mistake, and the Deputy
Keeper of the Records shall thereupon correct such mistake
in the record, and in any office copy produced to him, but
in correcting any such mistakes, words originally appearing
in the record or office copy shall not be erased or rendered
illegible and the Deputy Keeper of the Records shall certify
tion and
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under his hand upon the corrected record and office copy,
that the correction was made by the direction of the Keeper
of the Records, and shall state the date when such correc-
tion was made, and such correction so certified shall be
read and received in evidence as part of the record or office
cow.
29. If within three days of the receipt of a deed or Procedure
writing presented for registration the Deputy Keeper shall d d m
discover that such deed or writing is not duly stamped, ;$r$
he shall not proceed to record the deed or writing and stamped.
shall cancel any endorsement or presentation which may
have been made thereon and any entry relating to such
deed or writing which may have been made in the Abstract
Book and shall forthwith forward the deed or writing
by registered letter addressed to the party who presented
it for registration at the postal address furnished by him
with an intimation to him that the deed or writing has
been refused for registration for not being duly stamped.
when
30. The posting of such registered letter containing such Discharge deed or writing, refused for registration as aforesaid, shall to Kcepctin Deplty
respect of be a complete discharge to the Deputy Keeper of the the custody
unstamped
record.
Records in respect of the custody of such deed or writing. ofthe
The time at which a deed or writing, refused for
registration as aforesaid, was first received in the office,
shall not be deemed the time of its recording, but if it
is again presented duly stamped, the time when it is thus
received shall be deemed the time of its recording.
31. There shall be kept in the Record Office- Keeping of
indices.
(a) indices of all Public Records in the office; and
(b) a series of index books, in which there shall be
made and kept entered up, as nearly as possible
to date, indices of all registered deeds and writings,
and of all registers in the office.
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Return of
original
deeds
and
writings
after
record.
Searches
in Record
Office.
Taking
copies of
records.
The indices and index books shall be arranged according
to such system and classification as may be prescribed by
rules.
32. At any time within two months of the certifying
in the register book of a record as being a true copy of
the original deed or writing recorded, the Deputy Keeper
of the Records shall upon production of the receipt for the
same return such deed or writing upon the request of any
person authorized to make such request. If no such
request be made within the two months aforesaid the
Deputy Keeper of the Records shall forward the original
deed or writing by registered letter addressed to the party
who presented the same for registration at the postal
address furnished by him. The posting of such registered
letter containing such original deed or writing after the
expiration of the two months aforesaid shall be a complete
discharge to the Deputy Keeper of the Records in respect
of his custody of such original deed or writing.
33. All persons interested in making searches in the
Record Office shall be at liberty to search and examine the
Public Records, and the registers and the indices in the
office, and to take abstracts or other short notes of any
matters in the same, and to inspect in the presence of
some person belonging to the office any original registered
deed or writing to which reference is obtained in such
searches.
34. The Deputy Keeper of the Records may allow copies
to be made of any Public Records in the custody of the
Keeper of the Records, at the request and cost of any
person desiring the same.
The Deputy or Assistant Deputy Keeper of the Records,
or some other officer to be specially appointed for the
purpose shall carefully examine any copy so made with
the record of which it is a copy and shall certify under
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his hand at the foot of the copy that he has examined it
with the record and that it is a true copy and such copy
shall thereafter be sealed with the seal of the office and
delivered to the party for whose use it was made.
Any copy so made shall be examined and certified as a
true copy by the Deputy Keeper of the Records, and shall
be sealed with the seal of the office, and delivered to the
party for whose use it was made.
35. When a person desires a copy of any registered ~~t~
deed or writing in the Record Office he must write a rgzing
requisition for it in a book to be kept in the office to be copies.
called the Copy Book.
Requisitions in the Copy Book shall be numbered in the
order in which they are made, and shall be dated.
The Deputy Keeper of the Records shall with all due
despatch cause a copy of the deed or writing in question
certified as aforesaid, to be a true copy and sealed with
the seal of the office, to be furnished to the person applying
for it.
36. Every copy of a record in the custody of the Keeper Office
copies of of the Records purporting to be duly certified to be a true records,
how far
evidence.
copy, and to be sealed with the seal of the office, shall be
received in evidence in all courts of justice without further
or other proof thereof in every case in which the original
Record would have been received as evidence.
No Public Record, and no original registered deed or
writing, shall be taken out of the Record Office unless
under an order of some competent court, except under
the provisions of section 32.
37. The Deputy Keeper of the Records may upon pay- Office ment of the prescribed fees, issue certified office copies copies partonly of
of any part of a recorded deed or writing. But any such deed,etc. of recorded
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Record of
dockets
instead of
deeds at
length.
Effect of
recording
a docket.
Records
specified in
2nd Sch.
validated.
Second
Schedule.
Authentica-
tion of
Liber 41
of Wills.
copy of part only of a recorded deed or writing, shall not
be sealed with the seal of the office, nor shall it be admis-
sible in evidence under section 36.
38. Any person who desires to have a docket of any
deed or instrument recorded, instead of having such deed
or instrument recorded at length, shall make application
accordingly, and pay such fee as may be prescribed by
rules; and the Deputy Keeper of the Records shall there-
upon cause to be recorded the date of the deed or instru-
ment, the names of the parties thereto, the general effect
of such deed or instrument, and, if the deed or instrument
relates to or affects any land, the parcels of land to which
the same relates or which it affects.
39. Where a docket of any deed or instrument shall
have been recorded under the provisions of section 38, such
deed or instrument shall be deemed to- have been recorded,
and shall operate and have effect as fully and effectually
as if it had been recorded at length; and the recording
thereof shall be evidence that the interests purporting to
be conferred under such deed or instrument are claimed;
but the record of the docket shall not further or otherwise
be evidence of the contents of the deed or instrument.
40. Notwithstanding anything hereinbef ore contained
with regard to the examination and certification of records
engrossed in the Register Books of the Record Office, the
records specified in the Second Schedule shall be deemed
to be valid, authentic and effectual records, within the
meaning of section 23.
41. Notwithstanding the expiry of the delays prescribed
by this Act, it shall be competent for the Deputy Keeper
of the Records, within one month after the fifteenth day of
May, 1890, to cause Liber 41 of the Registers of Wills to
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be verified and authenticated in the manner prescribed by
section 17.
section shall have been made and subscribed, the said
volume shall be deemed to be a valid, authentic and
effectual register book, and the deeds and writings con-
tained therein to be valid, authentic and effectual records,
to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
After the declaration on oath referred to in the said Validation
thereof.
Miscellaneous
42. The salaries of officers appointed under this Act, Expenses
and all other expenses of carrying this Act into execution zfuF:gzng
shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund. Act, how
paid.
43. The fees to be paid in the Record Office shall be Fees.
prescribed by rules.
Such fees as are payable under this Act shall be
demandable before the doing of the act, or the Frform-
ance of the duty in respect of which they are payable.
All fees received in the Record Office, or by or on behalf
of the Keeper or Deputy Keeper of the Records, shall be
paid over to the Accountant-General.
44. The Deputy Keeper of the Records, under the Deputy
Keeper to
annually
Minister.
direction of the Keeper of the Records, shall once in every report
year report to the Minister the proceedings had in execu- tothe
tion of this Act.
of Represent a tives .
Such report shall be laid before the Senate and the House
45. All penalties under this Act shall be recovered in R W O V C ~ ~
of a summary manner. penalties.
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20 RECORD OFFICE
(Section 21) FIRST SCHEDULE
FORM A
, Deputy Keeper of the Records of the
Island of Jamaica, do swear that the contents of this book are tran-
scripts of records contained in an authentic register book in the Record
Office; that every record contained in the said register book has been
[either] transcribed herein [or has been omitted in accordance with
directions given by me]; that the transcripts made have been severally
certified according to law (in the case of transcripts made since the
first day of February, 1879. and before the thirtieth day of November.
1887) either by the copyist or by a clerk or officer in the Record Office
(or in the case of transcripts made on or after the thirtieth day of
November, 1887), either by myself or by an officer specially appointed
by me for that purpose [and that the records that have been omitted
as aforesaid have been duly described in their appropriate places and
in the terms prescribed by me for the purpose].
So help me God.
I,
Sworn. etc.
Nom.-When none of the records in any book have been described in lieu of
being transcribed, the words in brackets should be omitted.
(Section 25) 5 FORM B
I, , Deputy Keeper of the Records of the
Island of Jamaica, do swear that I have examined the several records
contained in this book that purport to have been certified according
to law, and such records have been severally certified either by
myself or by one or other of the officers, who have from time to time
been specially appointed for that purpose.
So help me God.
Sworn, etc.
FORM C
(Section 25)
I, , Deputy Keeper of the Records of the
Island of Jamaica, do swear that I have examined the several records
contained in this book, and that they have been severally certified
accordingly to law either by myself or by one or other of the officers,
who have from time to time been specially appointed for that purpose.
So help me God.
Sworn. etc.
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