Registration of Title Act, 1942

Local registering authority.

9.—(1) Subject to the direction and control of the Registrar of Titles in relation to such matters as shall be prescribed, every local office shall be under the management and control of the county registrar of the county in which such local office is situate, and the business of such local office shall be transacted in the Circuit Court Office in and for that county.

(2) Every county registrar (other than the county registrar for the county borough and county of Dublin) shall be a local registering authority for the purposes of the Principal Act, and references in that Act or in this Act to the local registering authority shall, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (7) of section 4 of the Principal Act, be construed as references to the county registrar (other than the county registrar for the county borough and county of Dublin).

(3) For the purposes of the Principal Act and this Act, the county of Cork and the county borough of Cork shall continue to be one county.

(4) This section shall have effect subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 11 of this Act.