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LAND TITLES ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 26 of 2004
A1311

(6) After the Registrar has issued a title certificate for registered land or a registered long term lease, he—

(a) shall make a note in the Title Register that the certificate has been issued; and
(b) subject to subsection (7), shall not issue another title certificate in respect of the land or lease unless the first certificate is cancelled.

(7) A new title certificate may be issued, in accordance with the regulations, in place of a title certificate which has been lost or destroyed or which for any other reason needs to be replaced.

(8) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a title certificate is subject to—

(a) any overriding interest; and
(b) any subsequent entry in the Title Register,

affecting the registered land or the registered long term lease to which the certificate relates.

30. Searches

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person may—

(a) on the presentation to the Registrar of an application for a search or inspection; and
(b) in accordance with the regulations,

have made available any thing required under section 4, 5 or 6 to be kept in the Land Registry.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not operate to entitle a person to—

(a) have made available any thing referred to in section 4, 5 or 6 in a manner not expressly permitted under the regulations (or, where more than one manner is so permitted, in any one such manner as the Registrar decides);
(b) have made available, in respect of the application concerned, any document for the purposes of, or as a result of, the search to which the application relates other than any such document expressly permitted to be so made available under the regulations.

31. Evidence

(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, a document purporting to be a copy, print or extract—

(a) of or from—
(i) the Title Register (including any part thereof);
(ii) the applications register (including any part thereof);