S.L. 55.2 Art. 4Persons in possession of registers.

(1) Every Keeper or person in possession of a register or of any authenticated copy or copies or of other copies or of notes from which the duplicate register or, as the case may be, the new register can be compiled shall, on the demand of the Keeper of the Notarial Archives, grant all necessary facilities to enable the Keeper to prepare such duplicate register or new register.

(2) The Keeper of the Notarial Archives shall be empowered to request any possessor or Keeper of the registers or copies or notes referred to in subregulation (1) to give him temporary possession of any such registers or documents for the purposes of compiling the duplicate register and to retain such registers or documents in the Notarial Archives for such time as is required for the compilation of the duplicate register and the collation thereof provided that the Keeper of Notarial Archives shall issue to such possessor or keeper a receipt for any such register or documents, which receipt shall be returned to the Keeper of the Notarial Archives on the return of such register or documents to the keeper or possessor provided further that such register or documents shall be delivered to the Keeper of Notarial Archives in a good state of repair and so returned by him.

(3) Until such time as the aforesaid registers or documents are in the possession of the Keeper of the Notarial Archives he shall take due care of them in the manner prescribed in the principal law as regards original acts or registers deposited in the Archives.

(4) The expenses involved for the compilation of the said duplicate registers including transportation of the registers or documents referred to in subregulation (1) and the binding of such duplicate registers, shall be a charge on the public fund; for such purposes provision therefor shall be made in the estimates under the Office of the Notary to Government.

(5) No remuneration or other payment shall be due to the possessor or keeper of the registers or documents referred to in subregulation (1) for the temporary use of such registers or documents by the Keeper of Notarial Archives for the purposes of compiling the duplicate registers.