Which registration office handles an application, and what happens if the property reaches across the districts of more than one office?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the certified transcript of register or the application form, since these show where the real property is located, and any ruling or notice naming an office where the property's parts sit in different districts, because that touches the conditions the provision sets.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the first paragraph as a firm link between the property and the office: registration matters are handled by the district court, its branch, or the registration office that has jurisdiction over the place where the real property is located, so the property's location alone fixes which of these bodies the file goes to.
Another reading starts where that link breaks down: when a real property stretches across the jurisdictional areas of several registration offices, it is not the location alone that decides, but a designated registration office chosen in the manner set by Supreme Court rules by the head of the higher court that has each of those offices under it, and the provision leaves the manner of that designation to those rules.
Your judgment
When the parts of one property sit in different districts and no designation is yet in the file, how could a party show which office should handle the matter?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change the bodies that handle registration or the way a designated office is picked, or if a decision or Supreme Court rule clarifies what counts as a property spanning several offices.