Section 5 Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015

Section 5 of the Land Registration Law (LRL) Lagos State 2015 provides as follows:

(1) The Registrar and every Deputy Registrar shall in addition to delegated powers, have the power to
(a) require the holder of a legal interest or any interested person to produce any document relating to any particular land or encumbrance;
(b) summon the holder of a legal interest or any interested person to appear and give information in respect of any land, encumbrance affecting the land or other documents relating to the land or encumbrance;

(c) refuse to register any document presented to him, if such document is withheld or anything required by him to be done under this Law is not done;
(d) administer oaths and require that any proceedings, information or explanations affecting registration be verified on oath; and

(e) order that the costs, charges and expenses incurred by him or any other person in connection with any investigation or hearing held by him or survey made for the purpose of this Law, shall be paid by such persons in such proportions as he may think fit.

(2) When the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar under this Section is empowered to administer oath, such Officer may take an affirmation or a statutory declaration under the Oaths Law in substitution for it and in any case where an oath is administered or an affirmation or declaration is taken, no oath fee or stamp duty shall be payable.
Seal of Office.

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