A.—4.

Land Transfer.

13. Every such warrant— (a.) Shall specify the name and description of the person or persons entitled to such grant, and, if more than one, whether as joint tenants or tenants in common, and the date whereon the right to such grant accrued, together with a description of the land sufficient to identify the same, the correctness of which shall be certified by the Surveyor-General, or by some person appointed by him for the purpose ; and whether such land is intended to be held in trust as a public reserve or otherwise, or is subject to any road or other reservation or restriction ; and (b.) Shall be filed hy the Registrar in his office for reference, and shall be conclusive evidence to the Registrar of the matters hereby required to be therein stated. 14. 'If it appears on the Provisional Register that the estate of any person named in any warrant as entitled to a Crown grant has become vested in any other person claiming through the person named in the warrant, the Registrar may issue a certificate of title direct to the person appearing to be so entitled. 15. Every certificate of title to be issued as aforesaid shall be made subject to all incumbrances, estates, and interests appearing on the Provisional Register as affecting the land at the date of the issue of such, certificate. 16. No warrant shall be necessary for the issue of a certificate of title to any person in whom any land has become and is or hereafter becomes vested for an estate in fee-simple in possession by any Act of the General Assembly or by any Proclamation or Order in Council under the express provisions of any such Act since the first day of March, eighteen hundred and. seventy-one. f 17. (1.) The land comprised in any certificate of title issued or hereafter to be issued in lieu of a Crown grant shall be deemed to have been subject to the provisions of the Land Transfer Acts as from the date fixed by the Governor's warrant as the date of acquisition of title thereto ; and such date shall, for all purposes whatsoever, be deemed the antevesting date, in the same manner as if such* antevesting date had been inserted in a Crown grant of the said land. (2.) The reference to such antevesting date in any certificate of title purporting to be issued in pursuance of such warrant shall be conclusive evidence of such, date, and that the same was fixed by the Governor's warrant, as in such certificate is set forth and stated. (3.) This section shall not be construed to validate or enable the ■ registration under the Land Transfer Acts of any instrument executed prior to the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and eightynine (being the date of the coming into operation of the Land Transfef Act 1885 Amendment Act, 1889), by any aboriginal Native owner, so far as such instrument was not valid or capable of registration prior to that date. 18. (1.) The reservation in any such warrant (whether heretofore or hereafter issued) of any right of road, or right to take or lay off any road, shall, as from the date of such warrant, have the like effect as if such reservation had been contained in a Crown grant on the like date of the land the subject thereof, d (2.) Such reservation, and all rights existing by virtue thereof, ' shall be deemed sufficiently protected by the general reservation in any certificate of title of the right of the Crown to take and lay off roads

Particulars to be specified in warrant, and to be conclusive evidence to Registrar' 1908, No. 99, s. 13

Certificate may be issued to person entitled at time of issue of warrant. lb., s. 14

Certificate to issue subject to existing incu mbrances. lb,, s. 15

Warrant not necessary for issue of certificate to persons entitled by virtue of Act of General Assein lily. I!)., s. 16

Warrant for issue of certificate in lieu of grant to fix antevesting date. lb., s. 17

Land, to be under Act from such date.

Reservation of road by Governor's warrant to have same effect as if reserved in Crown grant. 1b.,.8. 18 Reservation of road in certificate of title not to vitiate the same.

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