Registration of Titles Act

This section provides definitions of terms used in the Act (for example: "addition", "bankruptcy", "certificate of title", "endorsed", "final mailo certificate", "grant", "encumbrances", "instrument", "land", "letters of administration", "limited certificate", "proprietor", "Registrar", "settlement", and "surveyed").

Acts or rules inconsistent with this Act shall not apply to land (freehold or leasehold) under the operation of this Act.

A Registrar of Titles shall be appointed to have charge and control of the Office of Titles and to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Registrar of Titles.

All courts, judges and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the signature of the Registrar.

The Registrar must keep an official seal inscribed "Office of Titles, Uganda"; certificates and other documents sealed with it and signed by the Registrar or Assistant Registrar are admissible as evidence without further proof.

The Minister may appoint and annul sworn valuers; appointed valuers must, within fourteen days and before making any valuation, take an oath or affirmation before a judge or other person the Minister appoints.

If the Registrar finds no prior registered transaction affecting the land, the Registrar must immediately bring the land under this Act by registering a certificate of title in the form in Schedule 2.

If the Registrar is satisfied the transaction has been registered and encumbrances released or owners consent, the Registrar must publish and serve notice, appoint a time (between 28 days and 12 months after publication), and on or after that time, unless a caveat forbids it, bring the land under the Act.

The Registrar may reject an application after giving one months notice unless the applicant proves they are not delaying compliance with requisitions on the title.

When an application is made to bring land under the Act (or in such a dealing), the Registrar must serve the notice mentioned in section 11 on all persons on the register appearing to have a subsisting estate or interest in the land.

An applicant for land under the Act must post a Form II notice on the land (or where the Registrar directs) and keep it posted for at least twenty-one days before the application is granted; the Registrar has power to refuse to issue the certificate until satisfied the section's requirements are met.

If no caveat forbidding registration is received before the certificate is registered, the Registrar must register a certificate of title in the name of the applicant or as directed to bring the land under the Act.

When land actually occupied by an applicant differs from the land described in their title documents, the applicant must state in the application that the occupied land is not correctly described in the muniments of title and must specify the reasons for the discrepancy.

The Registrar may grant an application to bring land under the Act for land occupied by the applicant even if the description differs from title muniments when the discrepancy appears due to survey/plan inaccuracies or discrepancies in measurements or bearings.

If a government survey's measurements are erroneous, the Registrar may issue a certificate treating the ground-marked dimensions as the grant dimensions.

The Registrar may issue a certificate for land included in an application when the applicant (or predecessors through whom they claim) has possessed the land for over twelve years and the land’s area does not exceed the area obtained by dividing the block’s ground area by the number of original plots; this can be done without measuring other plots or obtaining their owners’ consent.

Parties interested may lodge caveat; a person claiming an estate or interest in land described in a Registrar's notice may, before registration, lodge a caveat in Schedule 3 form.

The Registrar must notify the applicant when a caveat under section 20 is received and must suspend proceedings until the caveat is withdrawn, lapsed as provided in section 22 or 24, or an order is obtained from the High Court; the applicant may summon the caveator to the High Court, and the High Court may make orders including costs.

A caveat lapses after one month from receipt unless, within that month, the person who lodged it takes proceedings and notifies the Registrar or obtains and serves an injunction or order; the same person may not renew the caveat for the same estate or interest.

After an application to bring land under the Act, the Registrar may require persons holding any deeds, instruments or evidences of title affecting that land to produce them at the office of titles for inspection.

An applicant may withdraw their application before the certificate is registered; the Registrar must return all supporting muniments of title; and a caveator who was put to expense without sufficient cause may be entitled to compensation ordered by a High Court judge.

When registering a certificate of title, the Registrar must endorse and sign a memorandum stating that the land has been brought under the Act, forward a copy to the Registrar of documents, return or cancel lodged documents depending on whether they relate to other property, and restrict inspection or copying of retained documents without written order.

The Registrar must endorse a lodged subsisting lease as required by section 25 and then return the lease to the person who lodged it once the applicant lodges a certified copy of the lease with the Registrar.

The Registrar must keep a Record Book containing records of all deeds and documents produced or used for each application to bring land under the Act that is later granted; the Record Book must be open for public inspection during business hours on payment of the prescribed fee.

If the applicant or the person in whose name the applicant requested the certificate dies between the application and the registration, the certificate shall be registered in the name of that applicant or person and the land shall devolve or pass as if the certificate had been registered prior to the death.

A person whose name appears on land registered under the 1908 Registration of Land Titles Ordinance may apply, using the Schedule 4 form, to the Registrar to bring that land under this Act.

Upon receipt of an application under section 29 the Registrar must register title, record existing encumbrances, endorse and initial certificates and grants as specified, and return endorsed duplicates on request.

If, after this Act commences, an instrument affecting land registered under the Registration of Land Titles Ordinance, 1908 is presented for registration, the Registrar must register that instrument in the proper folium of the register of titles and proceed as directed in section 30.

When land is brought under this Act in accordance with section 30 or 31, the register kept under the Registration of Land Titles Ordinance, 1908 shall be closed for that land.

Fees for registering an instrument under section 31 are the same as for a like instrument under the Registration of Land Titles Ordinance, 1908; fees for bringing land under this Act under sections 30 or 31 are those specified in Schedule 5.

When land is first brought under the Act a fee specified in Schedule 5 must be paid to the Registrar; if the Registrar doubts the sworn value he or she may require a sworn valuer's certificate; the section does not apply to land in a final mailo certificate unless it was transferred before application to a non-African of Uganda.

The Registrar may bring land under the Act after the applicant publishes advertisements and the applicant pays an additional assurance fee equal to five percent of the land's total value; the Registrar may refuse if not satisfied of sufficient title evidence.

Leases of freehold or mailo land with at least ten years remaining may be brought under this Act; certificates of title to leasehold land remain subject to the lessor’s rights and powers; certain earlier titles issued before 9 August 1962 are deemed valid under this Act.

Grants and final mailo certificates must be delivered to the Registrar, who must register them on payment of any fee.

When a grant in fee is registered to two or more persons in joint tenancy for a public purpose, the Registrar must endorse “no survivorship” on the grant and every subsequent certificate of title and must sign their name on it.

Specifies who may apply to bring land under the Act (a list of persons), empowers the Registrar to bring such land under the Act on presentation of an instrument, allows the Registrar to require surveying, restricts mortgagors from applying without mortgagee consent, and limits mortgagee applications to exercise of power of sale with title directed to purchaser.

The Registrar must keep a Register Book, register certificates of title and enter particulars of dealings affecting land; the Registrar may choose the form and partition of the Register Book; persons entered in the Register Book must provide a place of address in Uganda.

Registrar must register one original certificate in the Register Book, issue the duplicate to the person entitled, treat each certificate as a separate folium, may cancel and replace certificates but must not issue the replacement until the cancelled duplicate is held, must file certificates by land location and enter block and plot numbers; references to volume or folium become references to block or plot where block or plot is entered.

The Registrar may register, with the consent of the Registrar of lands and surveys, a certificate endorsed “Limited as to Parcels” for land with no prior certificate of title and no deposited survey plan, after 1st November 1958.

The Registrar may (for a prescribed fee) remove the limitation as to parcels from a limited certificate or register an ordinary certificate in its place, but is not bound to do so until satisfied by deposit of a survey plan and other evidence and until required notice to adjoining proprietors has been given and expired.

An ordinary (full) certificate will not be registered in substitution for a certificate that is limited as to parcels, except where the limitation does not affect the part of the land for which the new certificate is sought, or as otherwise provided in this Act.

Unless otherwise provided, the provisions of the Act apply to land in a limited certificate and to registration of instruments and other matters affecting that land.

Proprietors of land under a limited certificate and any other person may not bring an action for recovery of damages against the Government for errors or omissions in the land description.

If a parcel is under one acre, its area need not be mentioned in the certificate, and omitting the area does not invalidate the certificate.

When a duplicate certificate of title is delivered, a receipt in the proprietor's handwriting may be required to be signed by the proprietor when practicable.

Certificates of title and instruments affecting registered land are treated as registered when a Registrar entry or memorial is recorded; the named person on a registered certificate or instrument is treated as the duly registered proprietor.

When a mortgage, lease or sublease is transferred or mortgaged, a memorial of the instrument must be endorsed on that mortgage, lease or sublease, and it is not necessary to enter that memorial in the Register Book on the folium of the existing certificate of title.

The Registrar must file and retain instruments not in duplicate when registered, and when an instrument is registered in duplicate the Registrar must file one original and deliver the duplicate to the person entitled.

Leases and mortgages presented for registration may be in triplicate; the Registrar must endorse and initial the word “triplicate” and must endorse and initial parts as lessor’s/lessee’s or mortgagor’s/mortgagee’s parts on returned copies.

The Registrar must not record notices of any trust in the Register Book; trusts may be declared by documents (duplicates or attested copies may be deposited with the Registrar), and the Registrar may, if expedient, protect the rights of persons beneficially interested.

A memorial entered in the Register Book must state the instrument's nature, the time it was produced for registration, the name of the party to whom it is given, refer to the instrument by number or symbol, and be signed by the Registrar.

When a memorial of an instrument is entered in the Register Book, the Registrar must enter the same memorial on the duplicate certificate of title, endorse on every registered instrument a certificate of that entry and authenticate it by signing; that certificate is to be received in all courts as conclusive evidence the instrument was duly registered.

The Registrar must sign the first certificate of title and every subsequent memorial; courts must accept the certificate and memorial as conclusive evidence and must take judicial notice of the seal and signature.

Instruments affecting land are not effective to pass estate or charge land until registered; the Registrar must register and endorse the instrument presented with the duplicate certificate of title.

The proprietor of land under this Act is entitled to a certificate of title; the Registrar must state the age or nature of disability when a certificate is issued to a minor or disabled person.

Persons registered as joint proprietors of land are deemed to be entitled as joint tenants; persons entitled as tenants in common are presumed to hold land in equal shares absent evidence to the contrary.

The Registrar must enter the words “no survivorship” on memorials, certificates of title and sign them; joint proprietors may direct the Registrar in writing to enter those words; once entered and signed by the Registrar, no one other than the registered proprietors may transfer or deal with the property without a High Court order.

Before making an order under section 57 the High Court must publish notice in the Gazette at the applicant's expense and appoint a time for interested persons to show cause; after that time the High Court may direct transfer or make an order, and when the order is deposited the Registrar must make entries and take necessary acts to give effect to it.

A certificate of title issued under this Act cannot be challenged for prior informalities or irregularities and is conclusive evidence of the matters it records.

When a certificate of title (or duplicate) states a person is entitled to an easement, that statement must be received in all courts as conclusive evidence of the entitlement.

If a certificate of title contains the words granting a right of carriageway describing the road(s), those words have the same legal effect as if the specific Schedule 6 wording were inserted in the certificate.

Schedule 2 to this Act is deemed to extend to the setting forth of the easements mentioned in sections 60 and 61.

The proprietor's certificate of title is treated as conclusive evidence of their good and valid title and entitles the proprietor to a decree for specific performance in relevant actions.

A registered proprietor holds the land (subject to encumbrances notified on the certificate) and is otherwise free from other encumbrances, except in cases such as fraud and prior registered interests.

The Registrar must record on any future certificate and its duplicate as an encumbrance any subsisting easement affecting the land that appears to have been created by deed or writing.

A person named as proprietor on a certificate of title is treated by courts as seized of the reversion and inheritance expectant on any lease noted as an encumbrance, has the corresponding powers and remedies, and is subject to the lessor's covenants in that lease.

The Registrar may issue a single certificate of title on application and, when registering such a certificate, must cancel and retain previous certificates and endorse a memorandum noting the cancellation and referral to the new certificate.

References to prior dealings must be noted in the Register Book and on instruments, but certified copies need not include those references and are deemed complete even if the references are omitted.

Allows persons with knowledge to make a statutory declaration and permits the Registrar, if satisfied, to issue a special certificate; the Registrar must record the issuance and must give at least one month’s Gazette notice at the applicant’s expense before issuing.

When a court (under the Civil Procedure Act) directs the Registrar to issue a special certificate of title, the Registrar must issue it as prescribed by section 69 and must first publish a notice in the Gazette; any person wishing to oppose may apply to the court within one month of that notice.

If the original certificate of title is lost, destroyed or illegible, the Registrar may cause a copy to be prepared and endorsed and must make and sign a memorandum stating it is a substitute.

The Registrar may call in duplicate certificates on sale by a court or mortgagee and shall require listed persons to send duplicates to the office of titles within a period named in the requisition (not less than seven days).

If a person refuses or neglects to comply with a requisition under section 72, or if the Registrar receives no reply from that person, the Registrar must proceed, mutatis mutandis, in accordance with section 69.

Lists of certificates of title called in for cancellation or rectification and not sent in must be exhibited in the office of titles and advertised in the Gazette and such newspapers at times determined by the Registrar.

Certificates and instruments transferring or creating a fee simple estate shall be taken to include the heirs of the person or the successors of the corporation.

Any certificate of title, entry, removal of encumbrance, or cancellation in the Register Book that was procured or made by fraud is void as against all parties or privies to the fraud.

The Registrar may require surveys, plans and boundary particulars to be made and lodged, and those costs are to be borne by the applicant or registered proprietor when an application is made or land is proposed to be subdivided under this Act.

Registrar must only accept plans that have been authenticated by the signature of the Commissioner Surveys and Mapping or someone authorised by them; surveys required by the Registrar must follow the requirements of the Commissioner Surveys and Mapping starting on a date to be specified by the Minister by statutory instrument.

When considering applications to amend a certificate of title or adjust boundaries, the Registrar may disregard small discrepancies: boundary dimension differences up to one in five hundred, or encroachments/excesses/deficits up to one percent.

A proprietor who subdivides land for sale must deposit a plan of the land with the Registrar if required.

The numbers of the allotments on the deposited subdivision plan, together with a reference to the plan by its deposited number, may be used as a sufficient description of the land for dealings in relation to those allotments.

When land is being brought under the Act, the Registrar may describe the land included in the certificate by its abuttals either in the body of the certificate and in the plan or in the plan only; abuttals used may be named by their common name with or without the reputed owner's name; if an abuttal is land under this Act the volume and folium of its certificate of title must be mentioned.

The provision lists objects that may be mentioned as an abuttal, including buildings, walls, fences, streets, reserved land, surveyed land in a certificate of title, and watercourses.

A person claiming title by possession to land registered under this Act may apply to the Registrar for an order vesting the land in them for the estate claimed.

Applications under section 77 must be signed (by the applicant or, for a corporation, by an authorised person) and must be supported by a statutory declaration by the person signing that the statements are true; other formal requirements for the application are listed.

The Registrar may reject the application, altogether or in part, or may make requisitions as to the title claimed or any other matter relating to the application.

If an application under section 77 is not rejected by the Registrar under section 79, the Registrar must advertise notice of the application (at the applicant’s expense) at least once in the Gazette; the Registrar may give the notice to persons he or she deems fit.

The applicant must post a copy of the notice of application in a conspicuous place on the land or at a place the Registrar directs and keep it posted for at least three months before the application is granted.

The Registrar must appoint a time between three and twelve months from the publication or service of the notice, after which the Registrar may grant the application unless a caveat is lodged.

The notice required by section 80 must specify the grant details, be dated, and be served by registered letter; the Registrar must file a copy with a memorandum which is sufficient evidence the notice was sent.

The Registrar may reject an application in whole or in part before it is granted if the applicant does not satisfy any requisition within a reasonable time.

A person claiming an estate or interest in land may, before an application is granted, lodge a caveat with the Registrar to forbid granting that application.

The Registrar may cancel an existing certificate of title and issue a new certificate if satisfied that the applicant acquired title by possession after the expiration of the appointed time.

The Registrar may grant an application conditionally, and the applicant must pay an additional fee as an indemnity for assurance of title.

When an application is granted, the Registrar must make entries like those required by section 150.

When cancelling a title, instrument, memorial or entry in the Register Book, the Registrar must endorse on it a memorandum stating the circumstances of the cancellation.

Certificates of title issued by the Registrar upon granting an application under this Part must be issued and registered in the manner prescribed by section 37; the person named becomes the registered proprietor of the land.

Certain persons with claims to land may lodge and may withdraw a caveat with the Registrar; caveats must state the claimant's name and address and generally must be signed, and the lodging person may need to support the caveat by affidavit.

Registrar must notify the person affected when a caveat is received; that person may summon the caveator to court; the caveat lapses after 60 days following notice of an application for removal except for caveats by beneficiaries or the Registrar; the caveat cannot be renewed by the same person; the court may make orders and delay registration if indemnity is provided.

While a caveat prohibiting registration or dealing is in force, the Registrar must not enter any change in proprietorship or other transfer affecting the estate or interest subject to that caveat except as allowed by the caveat or with the caveator's written consent.

A person who lodges a caveat with the Registrar without reasonable cause must pay compensation to anyone who suffered damage, as the High Court orders.

A memorandum of every caveat lodged under section 123 shall be entered in the Register Book, and a copy of the caveat (or so much as the Registrar deems material) shall be sent with the notification required by section 124.

If a caveat is lodged by or on behalf of a beneficiary under a will or settlement, certain changes (change of proprietorship, transfer or other dealings affecting the land, estate or interest) may be registered without removing the caveat if the Registrar considers the change authorised by the will or settlement and the caveator either consents or fails to lodge a written protest within fourteen days after being served notice.

If a caveat is withdrawn, lapses, or otherwise ceases to affect the relevant lands, the Registrar must remove the caveat from the Register Book and record the date of removal in the margin of the original caveat entry.

Proprietors may appoint an agent by a specified power of attorney form; such powers must be registered under the Registration of Documents Act and are presumed effective if registered within four months unless previously revoked; revocations prevent the Registrar from giving effect to instruments executed under the power.

A document signed by anyone and attested by one witness who is among the listed classes of officers or persons (including persons authorised by the Minister) is to be regarded as duly executed; a witness who is not among those classes may still be accepted if one of the listed officers/persons certifies in the Schedule 15 form; the Registrar may take official notice of signatures and qualifications; government officers (except a magistrate acting as notary public) and chiefs shall not demand fees for attesting under this Act.

An instrument or power of attorney is not duly executed unless each party’s signature is in Latin characters, or a Latin transliteration and the name (for marks) are added by or in the presence of the attesting witness at execution and a certificate in the form in Schedule 16 is inserted beneath the signature or mark.

A proprietor may apply to have their certificate of title amended when the title's description (boundaries, area or position) differs from the land actually and bona fide occupied by them or is erroneous or imperfect on its face.

A proprietor may apply to have other proprietors' certificates of title amended where inconsistent.

The attorney of a corporation registered as proprietor may apply on behalf of the corporation in the manner provided by section 9.

The Registrar must, at the applicant's expense, publish and serve notice of the application (at least once in the Gazette), post it publicly, and set a time not less than fourteen days after first publication when the application may be granted unless a caveat is lodged.

When an application would affect or create an inconsistent certificate of title, the Registrar must serve notice of the application (with a plan showing the affected extent) on all registered fee simple owners, lessees or mortgagees.

A person claiming an estate or interest in the land may, before the application is granted, lodge a caveat with the Registrar to forbid granting the application.

The Registrar may grant an application under section 140 or 141 (or to bring land under the Act) even if doing so affects land in another certificate of title, when the affected land was included in that other certificate due to survey error or misdescription, unless the title to that land has already been determined in a contested proceeding.

When an application is granted the Registrar must rectify the register and make orders to produce the duplicate certificate; the Registrar may detain the duplicate and may refuse to register dealings until the duplicate is brought in for rectification.

Upon rectifying an original and duplicate certificate, the Registrar may return the amended duplicate or may issue a new duplicate free of cost; every substituted duplicate issued must bear the same numbers with “substituted” prefixed to the volume and folium.

The Registrar may, by summons, require interested persons to appear, explain and produce documents, may examine them on oath, and need not proceed with a transaction if material information or documents are withheld.

When served with a vesting order or an office copy, the Registrar must record the order's date, the time it was produced, and the name of the person in whom the order vests on the Register Book and duplicate title documents.

The Registrar may make a vesting order where specified purchase and possession conditions are met, may direct payment of an additional assurance fee, and must effect the registration directed by section 150 upon payment of that fee.

If the Registrar is satisfied that an encumbrance on a certificate of title has been fully satisfied or otherwise determined and no longer affects the land, the Registrar may endorse a memorandum on the certificate or allow a later certificate to be issued without that encumbrance.

If someone proves to the Registrar that a judgment (entered under section 119) was satisfied before the entry's operative period ended, the Registrar may write “Satisfied” with signature and date on the Register Book and the writ will cease to affect the land.

The Registrar has specified powers to lodge caveats, prohibit transfers or dealings, effect registrations even if prescribed fees are unpaid (creating a first charge in favour of the Government), pursue recovery of unpaid fees, require surveys from caveators and remove caveats that lapse.

Fees in Schedule 5 or other fees prescribed by the Minister must be payable, and the Commissioner Surveys and Mapping may reduce or remit any of the fees, whether prospectively or retrospectively.

The Registrar may grant an application conditionally if the applicant pays an additional fee as indemnity, the amount to be determined by the Registrar.

The Registrar may require correction of a defective document and may reject it if, after written notice, the person lodging it fails to amend within specified periods; half the fees paid on lodging are forfeited on rejection.

The Registrar may refer questions about duties or functions under the Act to the High Court; the High Court may give a judgment that is binding on the Registrar.

The Registrar and anyone acting under the Registrar's authority are exempt from liability for bona fide acts or omissions done in the exercise (or supposed exercise) of powers or duties under this Act.

A person registered as proprietor is generally protected from actions to recover the land against them, except in the listed specific cases.

The High Court may order the Registrar to cancel or substitute title certificates or register entries when land, estate or interest is recovered by proceeding; the Registrar must give effect to that order.

A person deprived of land or an interest in land may bring and prosecute an action to recover damages against the person responsible for the deprivation.

The Government may recover amounts it paid on behalf of deceased, bankrupt or absconded persons from those persons' estates or from the persons themselves; the High Court may, on Registrar application and a certificate from the Secretary to the Treasury, give judgment for the Registrar and order execution immediately.

The Government is not liable for compensation in the listed cases, except where the person liable cannot be found or cannot pay; amounts paid for absconding persons may be recovered and the Government is only liable for amounts that cannot be recovered.

Bona fide purchasers for value of land under this Act are protected from being made subject to ejectment, claims for damages, or deprivation of their registered estate or interest where prior registrations involved fraud or error.

An owner or proprietor dissatisfied with the Registrar may require written grounds and may summon the Registrar to the High Court; the Registrar has a right of reply and must obey the High Court's orders.

A person who sustains loss due to omissions, mistakes or misfeasance by the Registrar or other officers may bring an action against the Government to recover damages when barred from other actions.

A person who suffers loss from a rectification or bringing of land caused by an inaccuracy in a Government survey may sue the Government for damages without first using remedies in sections 162 or 167.

A person who sustains loss or damage from the Registrar's exercise (or supposed exercise) of powers may bring an action against the Government to recover damages; if that person was party or privy to the related application or dealing, they may join the Government as co-defendant in actions against others.

A person entitled to sue the Government may, before starting proceedings, apply in writing to the Registrar for compensation; the application must be supported by affidavit. If the Registrar admits and certifies the claim, the Minister may authorise payment of the certified amount.

Actions to recover damages for deprivation of land must generally be commenced within six years; persons under certain disabilities may bring actions within six years from when the disability ends, provided the action is brought within thirty years of the deprivation; plaintiffs who had notice and failed to lodge or keep a caveat may have judgment entered against them.

Proceedings under this Act use the same procedural rules and rights of appeal as ordinary proceedings; the Chief Justice may make rules subject to section 173 and to any powers conferred on him or her.

In proceedings before the High Court, the court may refer any question to a subordinate court; the court receiving the referral must try the question and return its finding to the High Court.

Making false statements, concealing material information, providing false affidavits/evidence, or fraudulently procuring titles or register entries in land registration is an offence punishable by up to three years' imprisonment or a fine; certificates or register entries obtained by fraud are void.

People listed in the Register Book must notify the Registrar in writing if their address changes; after receiving that notification and payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar must record the change on the certificate of title.

When one joint proprietor dies, the Registrar may register the surviving joint proprietor on application and proof of death; the registered applicant shall become the transferee and be deemed proprietor.

Registered proprietors and registered transferees of land, lease or mortgage have the same estates, rights, powers and remedies, are subject to the same obligations and liabilities, and may sue and be sued in their own name while registered.

The proprietor of land, a lease or mortgage must allow a beneficiary or person interested to use the proprietor's name in legal actions concerning the property when that beneficiary or person applies; the proprietor is entitled to be indemnified.

The Registrar must not accept or process applications or documents from anyone claiming to act as a legal practitioner on a client's behalf unless that person is an advocate enrolled in the High Court and holds an unexpired certificate to practise in Uganda.

The Registrar must, if required, give a person who lodges documents an acknowledgment; to obtain it the person lodging must fill in duplicate lists on printed forms supplied by the office of titles.

When a bankrupt is proprietor of land, lease or mortgage, the Official Receiver or trustee is entitled to be registered as proprietor; the Registrar must enter a memorandum on the register upon receiving the appointment and application, and upon that entry the Official Receiver or trustee shall become the transferee and be deemed proprietor.

Dealings by a bankrupt proprietor in land may be registered (subject to application under section 181 and any caveat by the Official Receiver or trustee), and once registered those dealings shall not be affected by the adjudication.

The Schedule 19 Table A conditions may be adopted into a contract for sale of land by inserting specified words, and then those conditions form part of the contract subject to any express modification or exclusion.

The Registrar may, in the Registrar's discretion, permit the use of vernacular translations of the prescribed forms.

People may inspect the Register Book if they pay the applicable fee and do so during business hours; the Registrar must provide certified copies on payment of the certified-copy fee to applicants.

The Registrar must file a copy and memorandum of notices sent and must amend caveat addresses on written request; the Registrar may, if he or she thinks fit, direct further or substituted service or proceed without notice.

The Minister may make rules for carrying out the purposes and provisions of the Act.