Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

INSTRUMENTS ACT 1933 (REPEALED) - SECT 14

    (1)     A bill of sale may be discharged or partly discharged by a memorandum endorsed on the bill of sale or a copy of it, held by the grantee or person claiming through the grantee, acknowledging that the bill of sale has been or is discharged or, for part discharge, the extent to which it has been or is so discharged.

Note     If a form is approved under s 38 (Approved forms) for the endorsement of discharge or partial discharge under subsection (1) of a bill of sale, the form must be used.

    (2)     If the registrar-general is satisfied that the bill of sale or copy held by the grantee or person claiming through the grantee cannot, for some good reason, be produced, a bill of sale may be discharged or partly discharged by a memorandum acknowledging that the bill of sale has been or is discharged or, for a part discharge, the extent to which it has been or is so discharged.

Note     If a form is approved under s 38 (Approved forms) for a memorandum of discharge or partial discharge under subsection (2) of a bill of sale, the form must be used.

    (3)     The signature to any memorandum acknowledging the discharge or part discharge shall be witnessed by a lawyer, justice of the peace, or person prescribed for the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 , (Cwlth), section 8 (b).

    (4)     The registrar-general, if required so to do, and if satisfied that any bill of sale has been discharged or partially discharged, shall register the discharge or part discharge by noting the discharge or part discharge on the bill of sale or copy registered and in the book or index kept under section 11.