Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) For this Act and any other Territory law, a person who obtains a certificate under the NSW Act, section 8 for a motor vehicle—
(a) is taken to have made, on the date of the certificate, a proper search of the register of interests, for registrable interests in the vehicle, if the result of the search is correctly reflected in the certificate; and
(b) is not affected by notice of information (other than the information in the certificate) about a registrable interest in the vehicle only because the person fails to do a further search in the register of interests before the end of the day after the day the certificate is issued.
(2) For this Act or any other Territory law, a person is not taken to be affected by notice of a registrable interest in a motor vehicle only because the person or anyone else fails—
(a) to search a register or record kept under any law in force in the ACT (other than a search under the NSW Act); or
(b) to make any other search, inquiry or inspection.
(3) For subsection (2), it does not matter that the person ought reasonably to have made the search, inquiry or inspection.
(4) In a proceeding—
(a) a certificate that appears to be issued under the NSW Act, section 8 (1) or (5) is evidence of the matters stated in the certificate; and
(b) a document that appears to be a certificate issued under the NSW Act, section 8 (1) or (5) is taken to be a certificate, unless the contrary is proved.
(5) An action does not lie against the Territory, New South Wales, the director-general or a person engaged in the administration of this Act or the NSW Act, for the reliability of any information given by the director-general or an administrator in relation to a matter that may be recorded under the NSW Act, section 5 (3).