Registrar General of England and Wales

“ Item, If any Person or Persons having Lands, or Tenements within the said Dominion of Wales, been, or hereafter shall be bound within the Realm of England, by Obligation upon the Statute of the Staple, or by Recognizance, and pay not the Debt as shall appertain, that then upon Certificate thereof made unto the King's Chancery of England, by the Clerk of the Staple, or by any Justice of Record before whom such Recognizance shall be knowledged. ”

“ No person will be permitted to register more than once or in any other than his true name. Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a non-transferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunder in the land district in which he elects to make his entry ”

“ And that no person that taketh any such knowledge of any Fine or Warrant for any Recovery, shall be bound or by any means inforced to certify any such knowledge or Warrant, except it be within one year next after the said knowledge taken.
6. And that no Clerk or Officer in any of the said 12 Shires of Wales, Town or County of Haverfordwest, or Counties Palatine, shall receive any Writ of Covenant or Writ of Entry, or any other Writ whereupon any Fine or Common Recovery is hereafter to pass, unless the day of the knowledge of the same Fine and Warrant shall appear in or by such Certificate ”

“ The principle next in importance prescribes that registration per se and alone shall give validity to transactions affecting land. Deposit of duplicate of the instrument, together with the record of the transaction by memorandum entered in the book of registration and endorsed on the grant by the Registrar-General, to constitute registration. This method is designed to give confidence and security to purchasers and mortgagees, through the certainty that nothing affecting the title can have existence beyond the transactions of which they have notice in the memoranda endorsed on the grant. ”

“ For the purposes of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with, the Registrar or any inspector may at all reasonable times enter any premises at which the Registrar or inspector has reason to believe any person is carrying on business, and may make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary for those purposes. ”

“ Pursuant to this power, Congress may establish a system of registration for individuals liable for training and service, and may require such individuals, within reason, to cooperate in the registration system. The issuance of certificates indicating the registration and eligibility classification of individuals is a legitimate and substantial administrative aid in the functioning of this system. ”

“ And whereas by one other Act, made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the appointing of Justices in the Shires of Wales, it is (amongst other Things) enacted, That the Queen's Highness, her Heirs and Successors, may and shall have full Power and Authority, from Time to Time, to constitute, name, or appoint, two or more Persons, learned in the Laws of this Realm of England, to be Justices of and for the said Counties of Chester, Flint, Denbigh, and Montgomery; and two or more, learned as aforesaid, to be Justices of North Wales ”

“ A British Dependent Territories citizen who falls to be treated as a national of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Community Treaties shall be entitled to be registered as a British citizen if an application is made for his registration as such a citizen. ”

“ Every person whose name is included in the register, except a person who has not attained the age of sixteen years, shall, at his own expense and as often as it is or becomes necessary to issue an identity document to him, furnish the Director-General with two copies of a recent photograph of himself, and whenever a photograph of which copies have been so furnished, is no longer a recognizable image of the person concerned, he shall again so furnish the Director-General with two copies of a recent photograph of himself. ”

“ In 1669 a committee of the House of Lords reported that one cause of the depreciation of landed property was the uncertainty of titles, and proposed registration of deeds as a remedy, but nothing was done.
During the next thirty years numerous pamphlets for and against a general registry were published. In 1704 the first Deed Registry Act was passed, applying to the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1707 the system was extended to the East Riding, and in 1708 to Middlesex. ”

“ The Central Government may appoint such other officers and staff as may be required to assist the Registrar General of Citizen Registration in discharging his functions and responsibilities. (5) The procedure to be followed in compulsory registration of the citizens of India shall be such as may be prescribed. Insertion of new section 15A. 13. After section 15 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—
Review. ”

“ In England and Wales the council of every district and London borough shall appoint an officer of the council to be registration officer for any constituency or part of a constituency coterminous with or contained in the district or borough, and the Common Council shall appoint an officer to be registration officer for any part of the constituency containing the City and the Temples. ”

“ Any person aggrieved by the absence or omission from the register of any entry, or by any entry made in the register without sufficient cause, or by any entry wrongly remaining on the register, or by any error or defect in any entry in the register, may apply in the prescribed manner to the Appellate Board or to the Registrar, and the tribunal may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as it may think fit. ”

“ An appeal to the chief registrar in the case of the refusal of an assistant registrar to register a society or an amendment of rules, and in the case of suspension or cancelling of registry, is interposed before appeal is to be made to the High Court. ”

“ Section 6: Peeresses in own right A woman who is the holder of a hereditary peerage in the peerage of England, Scotland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom shall (whatever the terms of the letters patent or other instrument, if any, creating that peerage) have the same right to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords, and to sit and vote in that House, and shall be subject to the same disqualifications in respect of membership of the House of Commons and elections to that House, as a man holding that peerage. ”

“ Rectification by High Court
25.— (1) Where it appears to the High Court, as a result of evidence adduced before it by an applicant, that any particular recorded in the register is erroneous or defective, the High Court may, by order, direct the Registrar to rectify the register on such terms and conditions as seem to the High Court just and expedient.
(2) The Registrar must upon receipt of the High Court’s order under subsection (1) rectify the register accordingly. ”

“ Notification in accordance with Article 6ter (3) of the Paris Convention shall have effect only in relation to applications for registration made more than 2 months after the receipt of the notification.
(4) The Registrar shall keep and make available for public inspection at the Registry by any person, during the normal business hours of the Registry, and free of charge, a list of—
(a) the state emblems and official signs or hallmarks ”

“ By this Act of 1547, such writs and proclamations were to be issued by the King's Justices at Westminster against any persons dwelling in the Dominion and Principality of Wales, and to carry out its provisions the sheriffs for the counties of Wales and Chester were to have deputies in the Courts at Westminster to receive all writs, so that persons resident in Wales were to be outlawed in the same manner as in England. ”

“ The Authority may give to the Registrar such directions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as to the exercise of the Registrar’s powers, functions or duties under this Act, and the Registrar is to give effect to such directions. ”

“ Here the registrar is, indeed, made a person of importance, for it is not sufficient that one well known to the parties themselves should give the proposed certificate, which should seem to be all that is requisite—no, it is essential that the person should be known by the registrar! ”

“ If registration were the only issue in the case, I would agree at once that Congress has power to require every 'person' acting as an agent of a foreign principal to file registration statements comprehensively showing his agency activities as is required, for example, by the Foreign Agents Registration Act. ”

“ If, on an application for registration as a British citizen made by a person to whom this section applies, the Secretary of State is satisfied that the applicant has at any time served in service to which this subsection applies, he may, if he thinks fit in the special circumstances of the applicant's case, cause him to be registered as such a citizen. ”

“ Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) , where an application for rectification of the register is made to the Registrar under section 27, the Registrar may, if he thinks fit, refer the application at any stage of the proceedings to the Appellate Board. ”

“ Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with the rules and regulations governing registration and to comply therewith.
(b) Every person is deemed to have notice of the requirements of title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948 and of the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder upon the publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for registration. ”

“ This system, which may be regarded as the second stage in the history of land registration, is called Registration of Deeds. It prevails in France, Belgium, parts of Switzerland, in Italy, Spain, India, in almost all the British colonies (except Australasia and Canada) , in most of the states of the American Union, in the South American republics, in Scotland and Ireland, and in the English counties of Yorkshire and Middlesex. Where it exists, there is generally a law to the effect that in case of dispute a registered deed shall prevail over an unregistered one. ”

“ The Registrar or an Assistant Registrar may summon before him any person who he has reason to believe to be able to give any information as to the existence or operations of any unlawful society, or suspected unlawful society, or as to the operations of any registered society or exempted society. ”

“ Registry under a particular name may be refused if in the opinion of the registrar the name is likely to deceive the members or the public as to the nature of the society or as to its identity. It is the duty of the chief registrar, among other things, to require from every society a return in proper form each year of its receipts and expenditure, funds and effects; and also once every five years a valuation of its assets and liabilities. ”

“ An extension of the time for registering may be granted by the court, but it will only be without prejudice to the rights of third persons acquired before actual registration. These provisions for registration as amended are contained in the Companies Act 1908 (§ 93) . ”

“ That in London is called the Principal Registry. A will must either be proved in the district in which a man dies or in the Principal Registry. The Principal Registry is a very large office, at the head of which are four registrars, who are also registrars of the Divorce Court, over which the judge of the Court of Probate presides, being styled "judge ordinary" of this latter. ”

“ Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That immediately upon the Prorogation or Dissolution of this present Parliament, the Lord Chancellor of England shall direct the King's Commission under his Grace's Great Seal, to such Persons as to him shall be thought convenient, to inquire and view all the said Shires of Kayermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Monmouth, Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, Glamorgan, and Denbigh, and every Part and Parcel of them; and upon such View and Search, to divide them and every of them into so many Hundreds as they shall think most meet and convenient ”

“ No person upon any register shall be certified more than three times to the same officer in the customs or postal service or more than twice to any department at Washington, unless upon request of the appointing officer; nor shall anyone remain eligible more than one year upon any register. And no person while remaining eligible on any register shall be admitted to a new examination of the same grade. ”

“ If the registrar finds it unable to grant the registration because the purposes of the foundation are not in line with section 110 or are contrary to the law or public good morals or may be harmful to public peace or state security, or the applicant fails to effect rectification or modification correctly within thirty days from the day he learns the order of the registrar, the registrar shall issue an order refusing the registration and without delay notify the applicant of the order together with the reasons for the refusal. ”

“ Functions of assistant registrars for Scotland and Ireland.
5. Salaries and expenses.
6. Report of the chief registrar.
7. Deposit of documents.
Registry of Societies.
8, 9. Societies which may be registered ; conditions of registration.
10. Name of society.
11. Acknowledgment of registry.
12. Appeals from refusal to register.
13. Registry of amendments of rules.
14. Registry of„ societies carrying on business in more than one part of the United Kingdom.
15. Registry of„ dividing societies.
16. Registry of„ societies assuring annuities.
Societies with Branches. ”