OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND: PASSED IN THE FORTY-NINTH AND FIFTIETH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the 12th Day of SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTED BY EYRE AND PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. PUBLISHED BY F. E. STREETEN, PROPRIETOR OF THE LAW JOURNAL REPORTS, MDCCCLXXXVI. WHEREAS by the Land Transfer Act, 1875, no provision is made for the conduct of the business of the Office of Land Registry during any vacancy in the office of registrar: And whereas a vacancy in the said office has taken place, and it is expedient that such vacancy should not immediately be filled, but that temporary provision for the conduct of the business of the Office of Land Registry during such vacancy should be made : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows, that is to say: 1. The Lord Chancellor may make regulations for the conduct of the Office of Land Registry during vacancy in the office of registrar, and for distributing the duties amongst the respective officers, and for assigning to the assistant registrar all or any of the functions and authorities by the Land Transfer Act, 1875, or any other Act, assigned to or conferred on the registrar, and all acts done by the assistant registrar under any such regulations shall have the same effect in all respects as if they had been done by the registrar. 2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Land Registry Act, 1886. CHAP. 2. Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1886. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Section 11 of 41 & 42 Vict. c. 39. as to close time not to apply to eels. 2. Short title. VOL. LXV.-LAW JOUR. STAT. A 2 |