Tobago Deeds
TOBAGO DEEDS ACT

CHAPTER 19:07

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
5 of 1900

Amended by
*24 of 1981

9/1983
185/1983

*See Note on page 2

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Note on Subsidiary Legislation

This Chapter contains no subsidiary legislation.

Note on Application of Act

The Land Registration Act 1981 (Act No. 24 of 1981—section 122(1) and the First Schedule,)
provides for the repeal of this Act “so far as it relates to registration of deeds or other
documents affecting unregistered land”, but up to the date of the last revision of this Act the
Land Registration Act 1981 had not yet been brought into operation.

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CHAPTER 19:07

TOBAGO DEEDS ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Delegate of Registrar General.
3. Office.
4. Office hours.

Registration.
5. Transmission to Port-of-Spain.
6. Office or certified copies.
7. Stamps.
8. Bills of sale.

Priority of deeds.
9. Bills of sale.

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CHAPTER 19:07

TOBAGO DEEDS ACT

An Act relating to deeds executed in Tobago.

[3RD MARCH 1990]

1. This Act may be cited as the Tobago Deeds Act.*

2. The President may designate any public officer in Tobago
to receive in Scarborough and forward to the Registrar General
such deeds and other documents as may from time to time be
executed in Tobago and require to be registered in the office of the
Registrar General, and the person so designated shall in the exercise
of his duties under and by virtue of this Act be called “the Delegate
of the Registrar General”.

3. The Delegate of the Registrar General shall keep an office
in Scarborough for the reception there of all deeds, assurances
and other instruments requiring registration.

4. Such office shall be open during the ordinary business
hours, and any person requiring a deed or other document to be
registered in the office of the Registrar General may deliver the
deed or document to the Delegate of the Registrar General, who
shall, on delivery, give a receipt for it, mentioning the day and
hour at which it was received by him.

5. As soon as convenient after the delivery to him of any
such deed or document, the Delegate shall forward it to the
Registrar General for registration, together with the memorandum
of the day and hour on which it was received and of the name of
the person who delivered it.

*See Note on Application of Act at page 2.

1950 Ed.
Ch. 28 No.3.
5 of 1900.

Commencement.

Short title.

Delegate of
Registrar
General.

Office.

Office hours.

Registration.

Transmission to
Port-of-Spain.

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6. Any person requiring from the Registrar General an office
copy or a certified copy of any deed or document so delivered
may bespeak the same through the Delegate, lodging with him the
amount of the prescribed fees for such copy together with the charge
for posting it, and the Delegate shall keep an account of all
moneys so lodged with him and account for the same to the
Registrar General and to the Revenue Officer in charge of the
Revenue Office in Tobago, and shall pay the same to the said
Revenue Officer.

7. No deed shall be received by the Delegate of the Registrar
General under this Act unless it has first been stamped by the person
delivering it with the prescribed charge for registration,
in addition to any stamp duty that may be payable in respect of
such document by virtue of the Stamp Duty Act. The Registrar
General, and not the Delegate, shall be the officer charged with
the duty of obliterating such stamps.

8. Any bill of sale within the meaning of the Bills of Sale
Act, delivered to the Delegate for transmission, shall be deemed
to have been registered within the meaning of that Act on the day
and hour when such bill of sale was so delivered to the Delegate;
and any other deed or other document so delivered shall be deemed
to have been registered at the time of its reaching the hands of the
Registrar General.

9. No bill of sale shall be accepted by the Delegate for
transmission to the Registrar General unless it is presented to the
Delegate in duplicate. One copy shall be preserved in a book or
register to be kept in Scarborough at the Delegate’s office marked
“Tobago Bills of Sale Book”. Any person may inspect any
document in the “Tobago Bills of Sale Book” on payment of a
search fee of one dollar, to be paid by stamps affixed to a praecipe
or request to be allowed to search.

Office or
certified copies.
[185/1983].

Stamps.

Ch. 76:01.

Bills of sale.
Ch. 82:32.

Priority of
deeds.

Bills of sale.
[9/1983].

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