Fees for the matters specified in the First Schedule shall
be paid to the Registrar. (2) All fees payable under this Act may be
prepaid in cash, and the Registrar may refuse to take any action or accept any
petition, objection or other document unless all fees have first been paid. (3)
The Head of State acting on the advice of Cabinet may by Regulations from time
to time amend, add to, or vary the Schedule to this Act or any provision
therein.
SOLICITORS
Solicitors not entitled to audience
- Except as referred to in section
44, no solicitor shall have or be entitled to appear or be heard before the
Court.
RECORDS
Records of Department -
Subject to any direction from the Minister, the
Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept proper records of and in relation to
the Department.
Records of the Court - (1)
The Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept
records of or in relation to the Court, and of every proceedings before the
Court, as required by this Act, or as may be prescribed by Rules, or by the
President. (2) No person shall have access to the records of the Court
except with the permission of the President, or the Registrar.
REPEAL AND SAVINGS
Repeal
- The Samoan Land and Titles Protection Ordinance 1934 is
repealed.
Savings and transitional
- (1) All proceedings commenced under
the Samoan Land and Titles Protection Ordinance 1934 and pending at the coming
into force of this Act may be continued and completed under the corresponding
provisions of this Act. (2) All records, instruments, nominations,
appointments, warrants, decisions, orders and generally all documents and acts
of authority originating under the Ordinance repealed, and which are subsisting
and in force on the coming into force of this Act, shall ensure for the purposes
of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the
corresponding provisions of this Act and accordingly shall, where necessary, be
deemed to have so originated. (3) The repeal of the Samoan Land and
Titles Protection Ordinance 1934 shall not affect any claim, title, right or
interest created or vested under the Ordinance, nor any instrument or document
in support, and every such claim, title, right, interest, instrument or document
shall continue in force and have effect as if this Act had not been passed or as
if made or done under the corresponding provisions of this Act. (4) The
repeal of the Ordinance shall not affect the terms and conditions on and subject
to which any person held office as a member or officer or staff of the Court
immediately prior to the commencement of this Act.