New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

21 Things that must not be registered

• The Registrar must not register any instrument that—

  • (a) does not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Act and of these and any other regulations for the time being in force under the Act; or

  • (b) is contrary to any other law or enactment; or

  • (c) appears to involve any fraud or improper dealing; or

  • (d) purports to create estates or interests not capable of registration, or to deal with estates or interests not registered or not capable of registration; or

  • (e) purports to deal with land or other property not subject to the provisions of the Act; or

  • (f) purports to deal with matters not capable of inclusion in the register; or

  • (g) contains an erasure, or contains an alteration to any writing that is not made in accordance with regulation 22.

  Compare: SR 1966/25 rr 8, 16