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In this Act \u2014 \u201cindices\u201d includes all indices, abstract books and catalogues relating to public records, registered deeds and writings or registers in any of the offices; \u201coffices\u201d means the offices listed in the Schedule; \u201cpublic records\u201d includes all rolls, writs, books, proceedings, laws, decrees, wills, warrants, accounts, papers and documents of any kind of a public nature, deposited in any of the offices; \u201crecords\u201d includes both public records and registered deeds and writings, and also transcripts of the same contained in any register book; \u201cregister book\u201d includes any book or volume in any of the offices containing records, as well as any transcript made or to be made of any such book; \u201cregistered deeds and writings\u201d includes all deeds, wills, conveyances, charters, bonds, bills of sale, patents, certificates, letters patent, specifications, petitions, disclaimers, memoranda, powers of attorney, accounts, inventories, maps, plans and all other instruments and writings whatever, which before or after the 2nd January, 1968 in any of the offices are recorded, registered or otherwise on record; Public Recorder Act (2023 Revision) \u201cregisters\u201d includes all records and enrolments of registered deeds and writings in any of the offices; and \u201ctranscribe\u201d and \u201ctranscript\u201d include print and printed or photographic copy.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_3\", \"num\": \"3.\", \"text\": \"Public Recorder and Deputy 3. (1) The Governor shall appoint a fit and proper person to be the Public Recorder for the purpose of recording wills, deeds and other documents. (2) The Public Recorder may, by writing under the Public Recorder\u2019s hand, appoint a person approved by the Governor to be Public Recorder\u2019s Deputy, and whenever the Public Recorder is absent from the Islands or unable to perform the Public Recorder\u2019s duties for a period not exceeding six months, all the duties and privileges of the office of the Public Recorder shall devolve upon the Deputy in like manner as if that Deputy were themselves the Public Recorder.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_4\", \"num\": \"4.\", \"text\": \"Documents for recording 4. (1) Every person desirous of having recorded any document which may be recorded by the Public Recorder shall present the same to the Public Recorder with one record copy which shall be printed, typewritten, photographed or reproduced in such other visible form as may be approved by the Public Recorder. (2) The Public Recorder shall not be required to record any document unless \u2014 (a) a record copy is presented to the Public Recorder with the original in accordance with subsection (1); and (b) there is paid to the Public Recorder in respect of a document containing one or more pages, a fee of one hundred dollars. (2A) Notwithstanding subsection (2)(b), where a person who is sixty-five years of age or older submits a deed poll to the Public Recorder to be recorded, the person shall pay to the Public Recorder fifty percent of the fee specified in subsection (2)(b). (3) The Public Recorder shall diligently compare the record copy of any document with the original and shall certify every page thereof to be a true copy of the original after making any emendation that may be necessary to correct any discrepancies therein. The Public Recorder shall then bind the record copy and retain and number the same, and it shall thereupon become the legally recorded copy of the original, and shall be sufficient evidence of the contents of the original as recorded.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_5\", \"num\": \"5.\", \"text\": \"Copies of documents 5. (1) The Public Recorder, on the request of any person who pays to the Public Recorder the fees specified in subsection (2), shall make a copy of any recorded document in the Public Recorder\u2019s possession and deliver the same duly certified to such person. Public Recorder Act (2023 Revision) (2) The fee payable for a copy of a document containing one or more pages is fifty dollars with an additional fee of fifty dollars being payable in respect of each copy certified by the Public Recorder. (3) The Public Recorder shall not be required to complete the copying of any document in less than seventy-two hours from the time when the request for a copy is made to the Public Recorder, but the Public Recorder may, at the request of the person requiring the copy and on payment to the Public Recorder of a waiver of notice fee equivalent to fifty per cent of the fee payable under subsection (2), prepare the required copy in less than seventy-two hours. For the purposes of this subsection, Sundays and public holidays shall not be counted in computing the period of seventy-two hours.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_6\", \"num\": \"6.\", \"text\": \"Search 6. Any person wishing to have a search made for a recorded copy of any document shall pay to the Public Recorder a fee of five dollars for each year in respect of which search is required to be made.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_7\", \"num\": \"7.\", \"text\": \"Waiver of fees for Government 7. No fee shall be payable by the Government for any service rendered to it by the Public Recorder.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_8\", \"num\": \"8.\", \"text\": \"Deeds recorded within three months after execution valid to pass freehold without delivery, etc. 8. (1) A deed made in due form of law and within three months after the date thereof acknowledged by the party or parties that grant the same or proved by the oath of one sufficient witness or more in accordance with law, and recorded at length in any of the offices within the said three months, shall be valid to pass the freehold without livery, seisin, attornment or other act or ceremony in the law whatsoever. (2) No deed made from and after the passing of this Act without such acknowledgement or proof and recording shall be sufficient to pass away any freehold or inheritance or to grant any lease for above the space of three years.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_9\", \"num\": \"9.\", \"text\": \"Deeds to be recorded within ninety days 9. Every deed which shall be made or executed within these Islands, for any estate or interest in land whatsoever shall be duly proved or acknowledged and recorded within ninety days after the date thereof, otherwise to stand void and of no effect against all other purchasers or mortgagees bona fide for valuable consideration as aforesaid: Public Recorder Act (2023 Revision) Provided always that in the case of every deed, whether made or executed in or out of these Islands, if a purchaser or mortgagee of any estate or interest in land shall omit to prove and record that purchaser\u2019s or mortgagee\u2019s deed within the time and pursuant to the manner prescribed by this Act, but shall at any time afterwards do the same, no subsequent conveyance or mortgage being made by the first vendor or mortgagor, their personal representatives or assigns, the same shall nevertheless be good to the said purchaser, mortgagee or personal representatives, and a perpetual bar against the first vendor or mortgagor and their personal representatives, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this or any other law.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_10\", \"num\": \"10.\", \"text\": \"Sealing 10. All patents granted after the year 1681 and enrolled within six months after the sealing of such patents, as likewise all such patents as are already there enrolled shall be good and valid in law notwithstanding any clause inserted in the said patent directing the contrary.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_11\", \"num\": \"11.\", \"text\": \"Records to be sufficient evidence 11. Subject to this Act, the records of any letters patent enrolled and the records of any deed duly executed and proved or acknowledged and recorded in accordance with this Act, and the record of any last will and testament duly executed according to law and proved shall at all times be deemed sufficient evidence of the several persons\u2019 titles to any estate or interest in land claimed thereunder, and the same shall be read and allowed in every court within these Islands as if the original patent, deed, conveyance or will were actually produced, proved and read in such court.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_12\", \"num\": \"12.\", \"text\": \"Mortgagees having been paid to enter satisfaction 12. Any mortgagee of any lands, tenements, real or personal estates whatsoever within these Islands, having received full satisfaction and payment of all such sum and sums of money as are really due to the mortgagee by such mortgagor shall, at the request of the mortgagor, enter satisfaction upon the margin of such mortgage, recorded or to be recorded in the office of the Public Recorder which shall forever hereafter discharge, defeat and release the same, and shall likewise perpetually bar all actions brought or to be brought thereupon in any court of record within these Islands; and if such mortgagee shall not, within three months after request and tender made for that mortgagee\u2019s reasonable charges, repair to the office of the Public Recorder or other proper office and there make such acknowledgement as aforesaid, that mortgagee so refusing shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay unto the party or parties aggrieved the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court of record within these Islands. 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If any vendor or mortgagor of lands, tenements, or hereditaments within these Islands shall presume to execute a second or other deed of conveyance or sale of the same lands, tenements or hereditaments other than to the first vendee of such lands, tenements or hereditaments, or a second or other deed of mortgage without having taken notice in the said deed of mortgage of the first or prior mortgage or mortgages with which the said land, tenements or hereditaments stand charged at the time of executing the said deed, all and every person and persons so offending shall be tried and punished and subject to like forfeitures and penalties as by the laws of England is provided against all such persons as shall execute deeds of mortgage without taking notice of all prior mortgages made.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_14\", \"num\": \"14.\", \"text\": \"Searches in office of Public Recorder 14. All persons interested in making searches in the office of the Public Recorder shall be at liberty to search and examine at such times as may be notified in the Gazette, the public records, registers and indices in the office, and to take abstracts or other short notes of any matters in the same, and to inspect in the presence of some person belonging to the office any original registered deed or writing to which reference is obtained in such searches.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_15\", \"num\": \"15.\", \"text\": \"Non-application to certain documents 2004 Revision 15. This Act has no application in respect of any document evidencing any transaction registrable under the Registered Land Act (2004 Revision) in respect of any parcel of land, lease or charge registered under that law. Public Recorder Act (2023 Revision) SCHEDULE SCHEDULE (section 2) 1. Office of the Governor 2. Office of the Public Recorder 3. Office of the Clerk of the Court 4. Office of the Coroner 5. Office of the Registrar of Lands. Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 10th day of January, 2023. Kim Bullings Clerk of Cabinet Public Recorder Act (2023 Revision) ENDNOTES ENDNOTES Table of Legislation history: SL # Law\/Act # Legislation Commencement Gazette 4\/2022 Public Recorder (Amendment) Act, 2022 28-Jun-2022 LG23\/2022\/s4 56\/2020 Citation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020 3-Dec-2020 LG89\/2020\/s1 Public Recorder Law (2010 Revision) 22-Nov-2010 G24\/2010\/s7 31\/2009 Public Recorder (Amendment) Law, 2009 6-Jan-2010 GE3\/2010\/s3 Public Recorder Law (2007 Revision) 20-Aug-2007 G17\/2007\/s4 11\/2006 Public Recorder (Amendment) Law, 2006 1-Jul-2006 GE14\/2006\/s3 Public Recorder Law (1996 Revision) 23-Dec-1996 G26\/1996\/s3 23\/1991 Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law, 1991 (part) 15-Jan-92 GE.15Jan\/1992\/s2 Public Recorder Law (1978 Revision) 8-May-78 G10\/1978\/s3 21\/1971 Registered Land Law, 1971 (part) 19-Apr-1972 GN82\/1972 41\/1967 Public Recorder (Amendment) Law, 1967 2-Jan-1968 GN153\/1967 Cap 143\/1964 Public Recorder Law 1-Jan-1964 Laws of the CI (Vol I \u2013 p. 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(part), 23 of 1991 (part), 11 of 2006, 31 of 2009, and Act 4 of 2022 and\nas amended by the Citation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020 [Act 56 of 2020].\n\nRevised under the authority of the Law Revision Act (2020 Revision).\n\nOriginally enacted \u2014\nCap 143-1st January, 1964\nLaw 41 of 1967-7th December, 1967\nLaw 21 of 1971-28th September, 1971\nLaw 23 of 1991-12th December, 1991\nLaw 11 of 2006-1st June, 2006\nLaw 31 of 2009-2nd December, 2009\nAct 56 of 2020-7th December, 2020\nAct 4 of 2022-8th June, 2022.\n\nConsolidated and revised this 31st day of December, 2022.\n\nNote (not forming part of the Act):  This revision replaces the 2010 Revision which\nshould now be discarded.\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 3\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nPUBLIC RECORDER ACT\n(2023 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\nSection\nPage\n1.\nShort title ...................................................................................................................................5\n2.\nDefinitions ..................................................................................................................................5\n3.\nPublic Recorder and Deputy ......................................................................................................6\n4.\nDocuments for recording ............................................................................................................6\n5.\nCopies of documents .................................................................................................................6\n6.\nSearch .......................................................................................................................................7\n7.\nWaiver of fees for Government ..................................................................................................7\n8.\nDeeds recorded within three months after execution valid to pass freehold without\ndelivery, etc. ..............................................................................................................................7\n9.\nDeeds to be recorded within ninety days ....................................................................................7\n10.\nSealing ......................................................................................................................................8\n11.\nRecords to be sufficient evidence ..............................................................................................8\n12.\nMortgagees having been paid to enter satisfaction ....................................................................8\n13.\nPenalty on persons selling, etc., the same land twice over .........................................................9\n14.\nSearches in office of Public Recorder ........................................................................................9\n15.\nNon-application to certain documents 2004 Revision .................................................................9\nSCHEDULE\n11\nENDNOTES\n13\nTable of Legislation history: ............................................................................................................... 13\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\nSection 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 5\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nPUBLIC RECORDER ACT\n(2023 Revision)\n\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Act may be cited as the Public Recorder Act (2023 Revision).\n2.\nDefinitions\n2.\nIn this Act \u2014\n\u201cindices\u201d includes all indices, abstract books and catalogues relating to public\nrecords, registered deeds and writings or registers in any of the offices;\n\u201coffices\u201d means the offices listed in the Schedule;\n\u201cpublic records\u201d includes all rolls, writs, books, proceedings, laws, decrees,\nwills, warrants, accounts, papers and documents of any kind of a public nature,\ndeposited in any of the offices;\n\u201crecords\u201d includes both public records and registered deeds and writings, and\nalso transcripts of the same contained in any register book;\n\u201cregister book\u201d includes any book or volume in any of the offices containing\nrecords, as well as any transcript made or to be made of any such book;\n\u201cregistered deeds and writings\u201d includes all deeds, wills, conveyances,\ncharters, bonds, bills of sale, patents, certificates, letters patent, specifications,\npetitions, disclaimers, memoranda, powers of attorney, accounts, inventories,\nmaps, plans and all other instruments and writings whatever, which before or\nafter the 2nd January, 1968 in any of the offices are recorded, registered or\notherwise on record;\n\nSection 3\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nPage 6\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nc\n\n\u201cregisters\u201d includes all records and enrolments of registered deeds and writings\nin any of the offices; and\n\u201ctranscribe\u201d and \u201ctranscript\u201d include print and printed or photographic copy.\n3.\nPublic Recorder and Deputy\n3.\n(1) The Governor shall appoint a fit and proper person to be the Public Recorder for\nthe purpose of recording wills, deeds and other documents.\n(2) The Public Recorder may, by writing under the Public Recorder\u2019s hand, appoint\na person approved by the Governor to be Public Recorder\u2019s Deputy, and\nwhenever the Public Recorder is absent from the Islands or unable to perform\nthe Public Recorder\u2019s duties for a period not exceeding six months, all the duties\nand privileges of the office of the Public Recorder shall devolve upon the\nDeputy in like manner as if that Deputy were themselves the Public Recorder.\n4.\nDocuments for recording\n4.\n(1) Every person desirous of having recorded any document which may be recorded\nby the Public Recorder shall present the same to the Public Recorder with one\nrecord copy which shall be printed, typewritten, photographed or reproduced in\nsuch other visible form as may be approved by the Public Recorder.\n(2) The Public Recorder shall not be required to record any document unless \u2014\n(a)\na record copy is presented to the Public Recorder with the original in\naccordance with subsection (1); and\n(b) there is paid to the Public Recorder in respect of a document containing\none or more pages, a fee of one hundred dollars.\n(2A) Notwithstanding subsection (2)(b), where a person who is sixty-five years of\nage or older submits a deed poll to the Public Recorder to be recorded, the person\nshall pay to the Public Recorder fifty percent of the fee specified in subsection\n(2)(b).\n(3) The Public Recorder shall diligently compare the record copy of any document\nwith the original and shall certify every page thereof to be a true copy of the\noriginal after making any emendation that may be necessary to correct any\ndiscrepancies therein. The Public Recorder shall then bind the record copy and\nretain and number the same, and it shall thereupon become the legally recorded\ncopy of the original, and shall be sufficient evidence of the contents of the\noriginal as recorded.\n5.\nCopies of documents\n5.\n(1) The Public Recorder, on the request of any person who pays to the Public\nRecorder the fees specified in subsection (2), shall make a copy of any recorded\ndocument in the Public Recorder\u2019s possession and deliver the same duly\ncertified to such person.\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\nSection 6\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 7\n\n(2) The fee payable for a copy of a document containing one or more pages is fifty\ndollars with an additional fee of fifty dollars being payable in respect of each\ncopy certified by the Public Recorder.\n(3) The Public Recorder shall not be required to complete the copying of any\ndocument in less than seventy-two hours from the time when the request for a\ncopy is made to the Public Recorder, but the Public Recorder may, at the request\nof the person requiring the copy and on payment to the Public Recorder of a\nwaiver of notice fee equivalent to fifty per cent of the fee payable under\nsubsection (2), prepare the required copy in less than seventy-two hours. For the\npurposes of this subsection, Sundays and public holidays shall not be counted\nin computing the period of seventy-two hours.\n6.\nSearch\n6.\nAny person wishing to have a search made for a recorded copy of any document shall\npay to the Public Recorder a fee of five dollars for each year in respect of which\nsearch is required to be made.\n7.\nWaiver of fees for Government\n7.\nNo fee shall be payable by the Government for any service rendered to it by the Public\nRecorder.\n8.\nDeeds recorded within three months after execution valid to pass freehold\nwithout delivery, etc.\n8.\n(1) A deed made in due form of law and within three months after the date thereof\nacknowledged by the party or parties that grant the same or proved by the oath\nof one sufficient witness or more in accordance with law, and recorded at length\nin any of the offices within the said three months, shall be valid to pass the\nfreehold without livery, seisin, attornment or other act or ceremony in the law\nwhatsoever.\n(2) No deed made from and after the passing of this Act without such\nacknowledgement or proof and recording shall be sufficient to pass away any\nfreehold or inheritance or to grant any lease for above the space of three years.\n9.\nDeeds to be recorded within ninety days\n9.\nEvery deed which shall be made or executed within these Islands, for any estate or\ninterest in land whatsoever shall be duly proved or acknowledged and recorded within\nninety days after the date thereof, otherwise to stand void and of no effect against all\nother purchasers or mortgagees bona fide for valuable consideration as aforesaid:\n\nSection 10\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nPage 8\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nc\n\nProvided always that in the case of every deed, whether made or executed in or out\nof these Islands, if a purchaser or mortgagee of any estate or interest in land shall omit\nto prove and record that purchaser\u2019s or mortgagee\u2019s deed within the time and pursuant\nto the manner prescribed by this Act, but shall at any time afterwards do the same, no\nsubsequent conveyance or mortgage being made by the first vendor or mortgagor,\ntheir personal representatives or assigns, the same shall nevertheless be good to the\nsaid purchaser, mortgagee or personal representatives, and a perpetual bar against the\nfirst vendor or mortgagor and their personal representatives, notwithstanding\nanything to the contrary in this or any other law.\n10.\nSealing\n10. All patents granted after the year 1681 and enrolled within six months after the sealing\nof such patents, as likewise all such patents as are already there enrolled shall be good\nand valid in law notwithstanding any clause inserted in the said patent directing the\ncontrary.\n11.\nRecords to be sufficient evidence\n11. Subject to this Act, the records of any letters patent enrolled and the records of any\ndeed duly executed and proved or acknowledged and recorded in accordance with\nthis Act, and the record of any last will and testament duly executed according to law\nand proved shall at all times be deemed sufficient evidence of the several persons\u2019\ntitles to any estate or interest in land claimed thereunder, and the same shall be read\nand allowed in every court within these Islands as if the original patent, deed,\nconveyance or will were actually produced, proved and read in such court.\n12.\nMortgagees having been paid to enter satisfaction\n12. Any mortgagee of any lands, tenements, real or personal estates whatsoever within\nthese Islands, having received full satisfaction and payment of all such sum and sums\nof money as are really due to the mortgagee by such mortgagor shall, at the request\nof the mortgagor, enter satisfaction upon the margin of such mortgage, recorded or to\nbe recorded in the office of the Public Recorder which shall forever hereafter\ndischarge, defeat and release the same, and shall likewise perpetually bar all actions\nbrought or to be brought thereupon in any court of record within these Islands; and if\nsuch mortgagee shall not, within three months after request and tender made for that\nmortgagee\u2019s reasonable charges, repair to the office of the Public Recorder or other\nproper office and there make such acknowledgement as aforesaid, that mortgagee so\nrefusing shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay unto the party or parties\naggrieved the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court of record\nwithin these Islands.\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\nSection 13\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 9\n\n13.\nPenalty on persons selling, etc., the same land twice over\n13. If any vendor or mortgagor of lands, tenements, or hereditaments within these Islands\nshall presume to execute a second or other deed of conveyance or sale of the same\nlands, tenements or hereditaments other than to the first vendee of such lands,\ntenements or hereditaments, or a second or other deed of mortgage without having\ntaken notice in the said deed of mortgage of the first or prior mortgage or mortgages\nwith which the said land, tenements or hereditaments stand charged at the time of\nexecuting the said deed, all and every person and persons so offending shall be tried\nand punished and subject to like forfeitures and penalties as by the laws of England\nis provided against all such persons as shall execute deeds of mortgage without taking\nnotice of all prior mortgages made.\n14.\nSearches in office of Public Recorder\n14. All persons interested in making searches in the office of the Public Recorder shall\nbe at liberty to search and examine at such times as may be notified in the Gazette,\nthe public records, registers and indices in the office, and to take abstracts or other\nshort notes of any matters in the same, and to inspect in the presence of some person\nbelonging to the office any original registered deed or writing to which reference is\nobtained in such searches.\n15.\nNon-application to certain documents 2004 Revision\n15. This Act has no application in respect of any document evidencing any transaction\nregistrable under the Registered Land Act (2004 Revision) in respect of any parcel of\nland, lease or charge registered under that law.\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nSCHEDULE\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 11\n\n SCHEDULE\n(section 2)\n1.\nOffice of the Governor\n2.\nOffice of the Public Recorder\n3.\nOffice of the Clerk of the Court\n4.\nOffice of the Coroner\n5.\nOffice of the Registrar of Lands.\nPublication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 10th\nday of January, 2023.\nKim Bullings\nClerk of Cabinet\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nENDNOTES\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 13\n\nENDNOTES\nTable of Legislation history:\nSL #\nLaw\/Act #\nLegislation\nCommencement\nGazette\n\n4\/2022\nPublic Recorder (Amendment) Act, 2022\n28-Jun-2022\nLG23\/2022\/s4\n\n56\/2020\nCitation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020\n3-Dec-2020\nLG89\/2020\/s1\n\nPublic Recorder Law (2010 Revision)\n22-Nov-2010\nG24\/2010\/s7\n\n31\/2009\nPublic Recorder (Amendment) Law, 2009\n6-Jan-2010\nGE3\/2010\/s3\n\nPublic Recorder Law (2007 Revision)\n20-Aug-2007\nG17\/2007\/s4\n\n11\/2006\nPublic Recorder (Amendment) Law, 2006\n1-Jul-2006\nGE14\/2006\/s3\n\nPublic Recorder Law (1996 Revision)\n23-Dec-1996\nG26\/1996\/s3\n\n23\/1991\nFees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law, 1991 (part)\n15-Jan-92 GE.15Jan\/1992\/s2\n\nPublic Recorder Law (1978 Revision)\n8-May-78\nG10\/1978\/s3\n\n21\/1971\nRegistered Land Law, 1971 (part)\n19-Apr-1972\nGN82\/1972\n\n41\/1967\nPublic Recorder (Amendment) Law, 1967\n2-Jan-1968\nGN153\/1967\n\nCap 143\/1964\nPublic Recorder Law\n1-Jan-1964\nLaws of the CI\n(Vol I \u2013 p. 1881)\n\nENDNOTES\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nPage 14\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nc\n\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nENDNOTES\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nPage 15\n\nENDNOTES\nPublic Recorder Act (2023 Revision)\n\nPage 16\nRevised as at 31st December, 2022\nc\n\n(Price: $3.20)","akn_extracted_at":"2026-06-22 15:37:13.575694+00","cms_id":"1964-0143","law_type":"principal","year":"1964","number":"143","title":"Public Recorder Act","status":"in_force"},"provenance":{"files":[{"file_id":"5539","expr_id":"529","kind":"akn_xml","filename":"1964-0143_2023 Revision.akn.xml","source_url":null,"storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-0143\/1964-0143_2023 Revision.akn.xml","content_md5":"471d27908ba6198145a2c31189648458","byte_size":"16508","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-22 15:37:13.713752+00"},{"file_id":"1057","expr_id":"529","kind":"pristine_pdf","filename":"1964-0143_2023 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-0143\/1964-0143_2023 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/pristine\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-0143\/1964-0143_2023 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"4b959a2cd7829f8729325ed23180b952","byte_size":"888082","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:37.482322+00"},{"file_id":"1058","expr_id":"529","kind":"working_pdf","filename":"1964-0143_2023 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-0143\/1964-0143_2023 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-0143\/1964-0143_2023 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"4b959a2cd7829f8729325ed23180b952","byte_size":"888082","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:37.482322+00"}],"paragraph_count":7,"latest_history":null},"quality":{"expr_id":"529","doc_id":"529","quality_state":"needs_review","quality_score":"84","needs_human_review":"t","deterministic_categories":"{duplicate_text,page_header_footer_noise}","llm_categories":"{truncated_text,other}","repair_actions":"{collapse_duplicate_text,manual_review,reextract_full_text,strip_page_furniture}","finding_severity_counts":"{\"low\": 1, \"medium\": 1}","finding_summary":"Sample shows likely truncation in Section\u202f3 and stray price note; requires verification of omitted portion and cleanup of extraneous text.","assessed_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:45.28609+00","updated_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:45.28609+00"}}