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(1) The Chief Justice, after consultation with the Chief Lands Officer, may by legislative instrument make regulations providing generally for the administration of the scheme for recording customary transfers, prescribing the fee (if any) for the supply of copies, and permitting the public to inspect the records of such transfers at reasonable times.

(2) The Chief Justice may by notice published in the Gazette appoint any person to be a registrar of customary land transfers for the purposes of this Part, and shall in such notice specify the area within which such registrar shall exercise his functions:

Provided that until such notice is published the registrar of every District Court shall be deemed to be a registrar of customary land transfers for the purposes of this Part, and shall exercise his functions in relation to the magisterial district to which he is assigned.

(3) The Chief Justice shall appoint an official surveyor for each District Court and such other staff as the business of the District Court requires to provide for the administration of the scheme for recording customary transfers.

(4) Where any transfer relates to land falling within the area of jurisdiction of more than one registrar, the registrar for the area in which the transaction is recorded shall send a copy of the record to the registrars of each of the other areas to which the record relates.