AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

INSTRUMENTS ORDINANCE 1949.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 10 of 1949

	The amendments made by this Ordinance are designed, firstly, to permit the verification of Bills of Sale and other Mortgages covered by the Ordinance to be effected by Affidavit as well as by Statutory Declaration, and secondly, to permit the registration of mortgages of pigs.  Under the existing Ordinance the only stock mortgages which may be registered are mortgages of sheep, cattle or horses.