An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the offices of Registrar-General and Deputy Registrar-General; for this purpose to amend the Registration of Deeds Act 1897, the Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages Act 1899 and the Real Property Act 1900; to repeal the Real Property and Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1901; and for purposes connected therewith.
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Registrar-General Act 1973.
2 Registrar-General
The Governor may, under and subject to the Public Service Act 1902, appoint a person to be Registrar-General.
3 Deputy Registrars-General
(1) The Governor may, under and subject to the Public Service Act 1902, appoint such number of persons as the Governor thinks necessary to be Deputy Registrars-General.(2) A person holding office or acting as Deputy Registrar-General may exercise and perform the same powers, authorities, duties and functions as are conferred and imposed on the Registrar-General by or under any Act, and any such power, authority, duty or function exercised or performed by a person so holding office or acting shall be deemed to have been exercised or performed by the Registrar-General.s 3: Am 1996 No 121, Sch 3.30.
4 Seal of office
(1) The Registrar-General shall have a seal of office bearing an impression of the Arms of the State of New South Wales, and having inscribed in the margin thereof the words “Registrar-General, New South Wales”.(2) Where the Registrar-General or a Deputy Registrar-General, acting or purporting to act under the authority of any Act, issues, signs or makes any instrument, document or writing, the instrument, document or writing is not invalid by reason of any informality in the manner or time of affixing, impressing, or printing the seal of the Registrar-General thereon, or of the omission to affix, impress or print the seal thereon.(3) All courts and persons acting judicially:(a) shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Registrar-General that has been affixed to any instrument or document, and(b) shall until the contrary is proved presume that the seal was properly affixed.(4) Subsection (3) applies in relation to any seal authorised for use before the commencement of this Act, as well as to the seal authorised for use by this Act.
5 Statutory declarations
A statutory declaration may be made before the Registrar-General or a Deputy Registrar-General, and when so made shall have the same effect as if made before a justice of the peace.
6 (Repealed)
s 6: Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4.
7 Transitional
(1) The person holding office as Registrar-General immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed Registrar-General pursuant to this Act.(2) A person holding office as Deputy Registrar-General immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed as Deputy Registrar-General pursuant to this Act.
Schedule (Repealed)
Sch: Am 1984 No 20, Sch 3. Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4.