matters) Order, 2020

L.N. 43 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Epidemics and Infectious Disease (Suspension of legal times

relating to promise of sale agreements, notarial and related

matters) Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

The title of this order is the Epidemics and Infectious

Disease (Suspension of legal times relating to promise of sale

agreements, notarial and related matters) Order, 2020.

When the Superintendent orders the closure of government

departments for the purpose of guarding against and, or controlling

dangerous epidemics or infectious disease, such order shall suspend

the running of all the legal terms imposed on a notary public by law to

register any deed, will, act or private writing or any period within

which the notary public, in terms of any applicable law, has to pay

taxes collected by him in the exercise of his profession or any term

related to fiscal benefits, incentives or exemptions or any period within

which a notary public is to submit any information or documentation

to any authority or regulator pursuant to relevant notarial activity and

any expiration term of any promise of sale agreement duly registered

in terms of law with the Commissioner of Revenue within the period

established by law shall also be suspended whilst the order for closure

is in force. The suspension shall last until forty five (45) days

following the lifting of the repeal of any such order by the

Superintendent. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,

such suspension shall mean that if the last day of any legal term

expires during the time when an order provided for in this regulation is

in force, the running of the times shall be suspended until forty five

(45) days after the day when the Superintendent repeals the order for

the closure of any government department by notice in the Gazette.

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