South Australian Consolidated Acts

LIENS ON FRUIT ACT 1923 - SECT 8

8—Registration and fees

        (1)         The Registrar-General of Deeds shall keep a separate and distinct register from year to year of all such agreements as are referred to in this Act, and shall be entitled to demand for every registration thereof such fee as may for the time being be prescribed therefor; and all persons shall have access to the said registers and may search the same during the usual hours of business on paying such fee as may for the time being be prescribed for every search for each agreement for a purchase of fruit crop or advance thereon. At the end of twelve months next after the expiration of the year for which any such preferable lien upon fruit crop has been given as aforesaid, the Registrar-General of Deeds shall remove from the records of his office such preferable lien, and shall destroy or cancel the same, or at any time at the request of both parties to any such preferable lien, and upon payment of such fee as may for the time being be prescribed shall enter satisfaction on the same.

        (2)         The Governor may by regulation prescribe fees for the purposes of this section which shall be payable in accordance with the regulations.

        (3)         Until regulations providing otherwise have been made and have taken effect, the fees prescribed by this section as in force immediately before this subsection comes into operation shall continue to be the fees respectively prescribed for the purposes of this section.