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Long Title

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II ESTABLISHMENT OF LAND TITLES REGISTRY

Part III INITIAL REGISTRATION OF TITLES

Division 1 — Bringing land under the Act on alienation

Division 2 — Applications and schemes to bring land under this Act

Division 3 — Qualified titles and caveats

Part IV REGISTRATION

Part V EFFECT OF REGISTRATION

Division 1 — Indefeasibility and priority

Division 2 — No title by adverse possession

Part VI INSTRUMENTS

Part VII TRANSFERS

Part VIII MORTGAGES AND CHARGES

Division I — Mortgages of registered land

Division 2 — Common law mortgages notified on on land-register

Part IX LEASES

Part X EASEMENTS

Part XI TRANSMISSIONS

Part XII CAVEATS

Part XIII WRITS AND ORDERS OF COURT

Part XIV RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Part XV STATUTORY ACQUISITION AND SALE

Part XVI POWERS OF ATTORNEY

Part XVII CIVIL RIGHTS AND REMEDIES

Part XVIII SEARCHES AND CERTIFIED COPIES

Part XIX MISCELLANEOUS

THE SCHEDULE Part I

Legislative History

Comparative Table

 
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On 20/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 20/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 31/07/2004.
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Withdrawal of caveats
126.
—(1)  A caveat may be withdrawn either wholly or as to part of the land thereby affected by an instrument of withdrawal signed —
(a)
by the caveator or his authorised agent including a solicitor acting on his behalf;
(b)
where the caveator is a natural person who has died, by his personal representative or the trustee of the caveator’s estate;
(c)
where 2 or more caveators claim to be entitled as joint tenants to the estate or interest protected by the caveat and one or more (but not all) of them has died, by the surviving caveator or caveators;
(d)
where the caveator is adjudicated a bankrupt, by the Official Assignee; or where the caveator is a corporation and is in liquidation, and the estate or interest claimed by the caveator has become vested in the liquidator, by the liquidator;
(e)
by the person or the committee to whom it is entrusted, pursuant to the Mental Disorders and Treatment Act (Cap. 178),the management and care of the estate or interest claimed in the caveat; or
(f)
by the solicitor acting for any of the persons mentioned in paragraphs (b), (c), (d) or (e).
(2)  The Registrar shall not be concerned to satisfy himself whether or not a solicitor who signs an instrument of a withdrawal of a caveat as solicitor for the caveator or for the person mentioned in subsection (1)(b), (c), (d) and (e) has the authority to withdraw the caveat.
(3)  An instrument of withdrawal of a caveat, which is lodged with and accepted as being in order by the Registrar, shall take effect from the date of the notification in the records maintained by the Registrar, either as notified in the Caveat Index or the land-register, as the case may be.