PART I.
EXTENSION OF THE RECORD OF TITLE ACT.
4. Every conveyance and every declaration of title granted by the Landed Estates Court after the commencement of this Act shall be prepared and signed in duplicate, and shall have annexed a map of any land conveyed thereby or included therein.
5. Section seven of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and every conveyance and declaration of title granted by the court after the com- mencement of this Act shall forthwith, on the signature and completion thereof, be transmitted to the Record of Title Office to be recorded.
PART II.
AMENDMENTS OF THE RECORD OF TITLE ACT.
6. For the purposes of sections eight and nine of the principal xVct, the counterpart or duplicate of any conveyance or declaration shall be equivalent to the original thereof, and shall be entered on the record of title where the original is issued to the person entitled thereto.
7. Section nineteen of 'the principal Act shall be read as if there were inserted therein a proviso that the production of the certificate may be dis- pensed with where the same is shown to be deposited by way of security with a prior creditor.
8. Section twenty of the principal Act, providing for the issue of a "special" land certificate, is hereby repealed.
9. Sections fifteen, twenty-six, and twenty-eight of the principal Act are hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted that no deed or instru- ment or other act shall be effectual to transfer, charge, or otherwise deal with or affect any recorded estate or charge. A deed or instrument shall take effect only by way of contract between the parties thereto, and as authority to the recording officer to make a suitable entry on the record, and on the making of such entry on the record the estate or charge shall become transferred, charged, dealt with, or otherwise affected according to the nature of the transaction.
10. Section thirty-two of the principal Act, enabling the record to be closed on the requisition of the recorded owner, is hereby repealed.
11. Every contract, covenant, or agreement, made or entered into after the commencement of this Act, to the effect that any estate or charge shall not be placed on the record of title, or shall be removed therefrom, shall be null and void both at law and in equity.
12. The period of six months prescribed by section thirty- five of the principal Act in the case of an application by the heir-at-law of a deceased owner of land may, if the court think fit, be computed from the day of the death of such deceased owner, and not from the date of the application.
13. Every instrument to be received by the officer for entry on the record shall follow some one of the forms annexed to the principal Act or
