Australian Capital Territory Consolidated ActsWhere any applicant or the person to whom an applicant has directed a certificate of title to be issued dies in the interval between the date of his or her application and the date appointed for the certificate of title to issue in accordance with this Act, the certificate of title shall be issued in the name of the applicant or in the name of the person to whom he or she has directed it to be issued, as the case requires, and the land shall devolve in like manner as if the certificate of title had been issued prior to the death of the applicant or person so named by him or her.