246—Unregistered instruments to confer claim to registration
Every instrument signed or executed by a registered proprietor, or by any
person claiming through or under a registered proprietor, purporting to pass
an estate or interest in land for the registration of which estate or interest
provision is made in this Act shall, until registered, be deemed to confer
upon the person intended to take under such instrument, or any person claiming
through or under him or her, a right or claim to the registration of such
estate or interest. The Registrar-General, upon application for such
registration by any person other than the person immediately claiming from a
registered proprietor, may reject the same altogether or may register the
applicant as proprietor of the estate or interest, either forthwith or at the
expiration of some defined period of time, and may direct such other entries
to be made in the Register Book, and such advertisements to be published, as
the Registrar-General considers necessary.