LAND TITLES ACT 1925 - SECT 30 Parties interested may enter caveat

LAND TITLES ACT 1925 - SECT 30

    (1)     Any person having or claiming an interest in any land advertised as provided in division 5.2, or the legal practitioner or agent in the ACT of any such person, may within the time limited by the registrar-general for that purpose lodge a caveat with the registrar-general, forbidding the bringing of the land under this Act, and every such caveat shall particularise the interest, lien or charge claimed by the caveator.

Note     If a form is approved under s 140 (Approved forms) for a caveat, the form must be used.

    (2)     No such caveat shall be received by the registrar-general unless some address within the ACT is appointed therein as the place at which notices and proceedings relating to the caveat may be served.

    (3)     Any person lodging any caveat with the registrar-general without reasonable cause shall be liable to make to any person who has sustained damage thereby such compensation as is just, and the compensation shall be recoverable in an action at law by the person who has sustained damage from the person who lodged the caveat.