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Version date: 1 August 1996 - onwards
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10. Registration.

(1) On an application for registration being made in compliance with section 9 the Registrar of Wards of Court shall, unless subsection (2) applies, register the instrument to which the application relates.

(2) If, in the case of an application for registration -

(a) a valid notice of objection to the registration pursuant to subsection (3) from a person to whom an attorney has given notice pursuant to paragraph 2(1) of the First Schedule is received by the court before the expiry of the period of five weeks beginning with the date on which that notice was given,

(b) it appears from the application that there is no one to whom notice has been given under paragraph 2 of that Schedule, or

(c) there is reason to believe that appropriate enquiries might bring to light evidence on which the court could be satisfied that one of the grounds of objection set out in subsection (3) was established,

the court shall neither register the instrument nor refuse the application until it has made or caused to be made such enquiries (if any) as it thinks appropriate in the circumstances of the case.