Cap. 56 Art. 39Power to make regulations.

(1) The Minister responsible for the Public Registry may make regulations generally for carrying out the provisions of this

Act and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may by such regulations -

(a) provide for the making of duplicate notes of any original notes for the registration of any cause of preference among creditors, or of any note of reference or of any note of enrolment where the original note has been lost, destroyed or damaged, and for the substitution by a new register of any register lost, destroyed or damaged;

(b) prescribe the mode in which such duplicate notes, and new registers shall be prepared and authenticated;

(c) prescribe that notes for the registration of any cause of preference among creditors, notes of reference, and notes of enrolment and the relative registers and indexes be reproduced by microfilming, and the mode in which such reproductions are to be made, stored and made accessible to the public;

(d) prescribe the manner in which reproductions made by microfilming and copies thereof may be authenticated;

(e) provide for the computerisation, including storage, of documents;

(f) prescribe the form of any certificate issued by the Director in terms of articles 26 and 30 and the form of the relative application for the issue of such certificates;

(g) prescribe the form of the application for the issuing of lists in terms of article 28 and the form of such lists;

(h) prescribe the fees and other charges to be levied and paid in respect of anything done under the provisions of this Act;

(i) amend, make additions to or substitute the Schedules to this Act; and

(j) provide for any matter incidental or supplementary to any of the foregoing provisions.

(2) The provisions of any regulations made under this article shall, so far as applicable, apply to renewals of registrations and to legal hypothecs.

(3) Any duplicate note or new register made in accordance with regulations made under sub-article (1), shall for all intents and purposes, replace the original note or register.

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