4.1101 Duties.
(a) The Territorial Registrar shall have the following duties:
(1) He shall keep full and true records of all instruments authorized to be registered,
recorded, or filed in his office, provided that the person offering any instrument for

registration, recording or filing shall pay in advance the fee required by law.
(2) When any instrument is delivered to him for registration, filing, or recording, he
shall endorse thereon the date and hour of such delivery and shall, as soon as possible,
register, file, or record the same in full, including the endorsement, in the proper manner
in a book kept for that purpose, with an alphabetical index.
(3) He shall keep a seal of office with which he shall stamp all instruments registered
and all copies of records certified by him.
(4) He shall be the custodian of the archives of, and register volumes of, the
government, including but not limited to, the registers of native land titles, land transfers,
court grants, miscellaneous, matai titles, native leases, corporations, and all other related
documents and registers of the government.
(5) He shall be the secretary and a member of the land commission.
(6) He shall have all of the duties formerly attached to the registrar of titles and all the
duties of the clerk of the High Court and or the registrar of titles as described in 1.0401 et
seq., 4.0325, 4.1101 et seq., 27.1510, 27.1511, Title 30, 37.0101 — 37.0113, 37.0120,
and 37.0210.
(b) In addition to the duties described in subsection (a), the Territorial Registrar shall
have such other duties as the Governor or his authorized representative may from time to
time designate.