S.L. 55.6 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act;

"authenticated copy" includes a true copy of an authenticated copy; "contract of engagement" means the contract referred to in regulation 19, and includes any amendment thereto; "diligence" means the diligence referred to in the Act and in these regulations; "direct owner" includes sub-direct owner;

"directum dominium" includes sub-directum dominium; "document" means any handwritten, typewritten, printed or computer-generated document, or one which has come into being through a combination of two or more of these methods, and includes photostatic copies thereof;

"examination of title" has the meaning assigned to it in the Act and in these regulations;

"emphyteusis" includes sub-emphyteusis; "ground rent" includes sub-ground rent; "immovable" means the ownership of immovable property or other real right over such property, the subject-matter of the examination of title; "Land Registry" means the registry set up by the Land Registration Act and includes any other registry or body which from time to time may take over some or all of the functions and responsibilities of the Land Registry; "legacy" includes pre-legacy; "legatee" includes pre-legatee;

"photostatic copy" includes a scanned image; "plan" includes a sketch or design, howsoever made; "prescriptive period" means ten, thirty or forty years depending on the basis of prescription applicable in terms of these regulations; "Public Registry" means the registry set up by the Public

*see regulation 1(2) of these regulations, as originally promulgated. Registry Act and includes any other registry or body which from time to time may take over some or all of the functions and responsibilities of the Public Registry; "searches" has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 6(2); "testamentary search" has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 11; "title" means the title under which an immovable has passed to the transferor; "transferee" means a person who acquires an immovable inter vivos by notarial act, whether there is a contract of engagement or not and, unless the context otherwise requires, includes a person (other than a creditor or a person referred to in regulation 19(4)) who instructs a notary to examine title in terms of a contract of engagement; "transferor" means a person who transfers an immovable inter vivos by notarial act.