Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006

Validity of certain registered deeds.

39.— (1) Subject to subsection (2), proof of execution of a deed by a witness to the execution by a grantee under the deed is deemed to be and always to have been as valid, for the purposes of section 6 of the Registration of Deeds Act 1707, as if the witness had been a witness to the execution by a grantor under it.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect—

(a) any judgment or order given or made before the commencement of this section in any proceedings, including appeal proceedings, or

(b) any proceedings pending at such commencement,

in relation to the execution of a deed.