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Land Registration Act 1925

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118Penalty for unqualified persons drawing instruments.

Every person who not being a barrister or a duly certificated solicitor, notary public, or conveyancer, either directly or indirectly, for or in expectation of any fee, gain, or reward, draws or prepares any instrument of transfer or charge, or makes any application or lodges any document for registration at the registry, shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds:

Provided that this section shall not extend to—

(a)any public officer drawing or preparing instruments and applications in the course of his duty; or

(b)any person employed merely to engross any instrument or application.

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