27LFunctions of registrar

27L Functions of registrar (1) The registrar must establish and maintain a register of plantation licences. (2) The registrar must keep the register in the manner he or she considers appropriate. (3) The registrar must register the following documents— (a) licences granted under this Part; (b) instruments of cancellation of licences; (c) instruments for creating, assigning or affecting interests in, or conferred by, licences; (d) instruments for the devolution of licences or interests in, or conferred by, licences; (e) any document required under the **Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987** to be registered on the register; (f) any other prescribed documents. (4) The registrar must— (a) record in the register as the case requires the prescribed information contained in any document registered under subsection (3); and (b) endorse on the document and in the register the date and time of registration; and (c) record in the register any other information required under this Act or any other Act to be recorded in the register. (5) The registrar may— (a) approve forms of documents referred to in subsection (3) for registration; and (b) register a document by registering either the original or a copy; and (c) determine the form of an extract from the register. (6) The registrar may refuse to accept for registration any document referred to in subsection (3) that does not contain the prescribed information or that is not in an approved form. S. 27M inserted by No. 35/1998