Administration of Justice Act 1925

22Registration of deeds of arrangement

(1)The office for the registration of deeds of arrangement under the [4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 47.] Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914 (in this section referred to as " the Act of 1914 ".), shall be transferred to the Board of Trade, and the registrar for the purposes of the Act of 1914 shall be appointed by the Board of Trade, and references in that Act to the registrar of bills of sale or to the registrar for the purposes of that Act shall be construed as references to the registrar so appointed.

(2)Subsection (1) of section five of the Act of 1914 (which provides that a copy of every deed to be registered shall be presented to the registrar) shall have effect as if it provided that there shall be presented to the registrar such number of copies of the deed and of every schedule or inventory annexed thereto or referred to therein as he may deem to be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the requirements of the Act of 1914 as amended by this section.

(3)Paragraph (c) of section six of the Act of 1914 (which provides that a short statement of the nature and effect of the deed shall be entered in the register) shall cease to have effect.

(4)Subsection (2) of section twenty-six of the Act of 1914 (which provides that section twenty-six of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall apply to fees under the Act of 1914), shall apply only to fees to be taken in the Supreme Court in respect of matters arising under the Act of 1914 as amended by this section, and all other fees whatsoever to be taken under the Act of 1914 shall be prescribed by order made by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Treasury and not otherwise, and all such other fees shall be paid into such account as the Treasury may direct.

(5)Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, rules for carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of 1914, as amended by this section, other than the provisions of section seven thereof, may be made by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the President of the Board of Trade, and, subject as aforesaid, the expression " prescribed " in the Act of 1914 shall mean prescribed by rules made under this subsection.

(6)This section shall be construed as one with the Act of 1914.