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to ranking in, or having effect by virtue of, any enactment or rule of law, the following provisions of this section shall have effect to determine the ranking of titles to interests in land. (2) Titles  to  registered  interests  in  land  shall  rank  according  to  the  date  of  registration  of  those interests. (3) A title to a registered interest and a title governed by a deed recorded in the Register of Sasines shall rank according to the respective dates of registration and recording. (4) Where the date of registration or recording of the titles to two or more interests in land is the same, the titles to those interests shall rank equally. Continuing effectiveness of recording in Register of Sasines 8.-(l) Subject to subsection (3) below, the only means of creating or affecting a real right or a real obligation relating to anything to which sub-section (2) below applies shall be by recording a deed in the Register of Sasines. (2) This subsection applies to- (a) an interest in land which is to be transferred or otherwise affected by- (i)    an instrument which, having been recorded before the commencement of this Act in the Register of Sasines with an error or defect; or (ii)   a  deed  which,  having  been  recorded  before  the  commencement  of  this  Act  in  the Register of Sasines with an error or defect in the recording, has not, before such commencement, been re-presented, corrected as necessary, for the purposes of recording of new under section 143 of the Titles to Land Consolidation Scotland) Act 1868; In this paragraph, “instrument” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the said Act of 1868. (b)  A  registered  interest  in  land  which  has  been  absorbed,  otherwise  than  by  operation  of prescription, into another interest in land the title to which is governed by a deed recorded in the Register of Sasines; (c)   anything which is not registrable under subsections (1) to (4) of section 2 of this Act and in  respect  of  which,  immediately  before  the  commencement  of  this  Act,  a  real  right  or obligation could be created or affected by recording a deed in the Register of Sasines. (3) Nothing in subsection (1) above shall prejudice any other means, other than by registration, of creating or affecting real rights or obligations under any enactment or rule of law. (4) Except as provided in this section, the Keeper shall reject any deed submitted for recording in the Register of Sasines. Rectification of the register 9.-(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, the Keeper may, whether on being so requested or not, and shall, on being so ordered by the court or the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, rectify any inaccuracy in the register by inserting, amending or cancelling anything therein.