The Office of the Chief Registrar of Deeds (OCRD) provides oversight to deeds registries. It is also responsible for policy and legislation formulation, providing corporate support services, service delivery coordination, formal deeds training and monitoring and evaluation thereof. Strategic planning, interpretation and implementation directives of policies as well as tactical planning are also undertaken.

The Chief Registrar of Deeds is responsible for exercising supervision over all the deeds registries as maybe necessary in order to bring about uniformity in their practice and procedures.