Registry of Deeds (Ireland) Act 1832

REGISTRY OF DEEDS (IRELAND) ACT 1832

CAP. LXXXVII.

An Act to regulate the Office for registering Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills in Ireland. [4th August 1832.]

6 Ann. (I).

9G. 4. c. 57.

Recited Act 9 G. 4. c. 57. repealed;

and certain Treasury Minutes rescinded.

Appointments not to be vacated by the Repeal of that Act.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the public registering of all Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, a Public Register Office was established in the City of Dublin; and by other Acts of Parliament made in Ireland, and by certain Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom, various Provisions have from Time to Time been made in respect of such Register Office, and particularly by an Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to provide for the Regulation if the Public Office for registering Memorials of Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills in Ireland: And whereas Lord Viscount Kilwarden, who at the Time of passing the said last-mentioned Act was by Patent Registrar of the said Office, has since died, and thereupon George Moore Esquire, One of His Majesty’s Counsel in Ireland, who had for many Years been Deputy Registrar, was, by the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, under the Authority of the said last-mentioned Act, on or about the Twenty-seventh Day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty appointed Registrar of the said Office, and he now is Registrar of the same; and certain other Appointments in the said Office were then also made: And whereas Doubts have arisen as to the Construction of certain of the Provisions made by the said Acts in respect to the said Register Office; and some of the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth have been found inconvenient, and others to occasion an unreasonable Expence to Parties resorting for Information to the said Register Office, at the remaining. Provisions to require Alterations and Amendments be made therein: For Remedy whereof it is requisite that the said last-mentioned Act should be repealed, but without invalidating that aforesaid Appointments; and also that other Provisions should be made for the future Regulation of the said Register Office: Be therefore enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said recited Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth shall be, from the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two and the same is hereby from that Day, repealed; and also that Three several Treasury Minutes founded upon the said Act, and dated respectively, Two of them the Twenty-seventh Day of July, and the other the Seventeenth Day of December, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty, and which Minutes were all of them laid before Parliament on the Twenty-third Day of the said Month of December, be rescinded: Provided always, that no Appointment made or Security given under the said Act shall by such Repeal be vacated or rendered, invalid, but every such Appointment and Security shall be and continue a good and valid Appointment and Security, subject however to the Provisions of this Act.