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(1)  (Repealed)

(2)  Where the Registrar-General supplies information in response to a written inquiry as to the manner in which a proposed dealing or plan should be drawn, or whether a proposed dealing or plan should be entitled to registration, by or under this or any other Act:

(a)  the Registrar-General may require payment of a prescribed fee, or may supply the information without fee, and

(b)  the fact that any such information has been so supplied shall not, of itself, bind the Registrar-General to register or otherwise give effect to any dealing or plan, or any class of dealing or plan.

(3)  A regulation prescribing a fee for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) may:

(a)  prescribe the fee to be paid in the circumstances specified in the regulation,

(b)  require, in the circumstances specified in the regulation, the payment of a fee calculated on such basis as may be prescribed by the regulation, or

(c)  authorise the Registrar-General to charge, in circumstances not provided for under paragraph (a) or (b), a reasonable fee.