Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

LAND TITLES ACT 1925 - SECT 51

    (1)     The registrar-general shall not register—

        (a)     an instrument executed on or after 1 July 1969 and before 1 August 1987, being an instrument included in a class of instruments specified in the Australian Capital Territory Stamp Duty Act 1969 (Cwlth), schedule 1, item 4, 5, 6 or 7; or

        (b)     an instrument executed on or after 1 January 1986 and before 1 September 1987 being an instrument included in a class of instruments specified in the Australian Capital Territory Stamp Duty Act 1969 (Cwlth), schedule 1, item 9; or

        (c)     an instrument executed on or after 1 January 1987 and before 1 August 1987, being an instrument included in a class of instruments specified in the Australian Capital Territory Stamp Duty Act 1969 (Cwlth), schedule 1, item 6A;

unless—

        (d)     the instrument is duly stamped within the meaning of the Australian Capital Territory Taxation (Administration) Act 1969 (Cwlth); or

        (e)     the instrument bears a stamp impressed on it under that Act to the effect that no stamp duty is payable; or

        (f)     the instrument, being a counterpart of another instrument that has been so duly stamped, bears a stamp impressed on it under that Act to that effect.

    (2)     The registrar-general shall not register an instrument executed on or after 1 August 1987 and before the repeal day, being an instrument of a kind referred to in the Stamp Duties and Taxes Act 1987 , section 17 (1) (a), (b), (c), (ca) or (d), unless the instrument has been duly stamped within the meaning of that Act.

    (3)     In subsection (2):

"repeal day" means the day on which the Stamp Duties and Taxes Act 1987 is repealed.