Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMONWEALTH FUNCTIONS (STATUTES REVIEW) ACT 1981 No. 74 of 1981 - SECT 16

16. (1) Where by reason of the operation of this Division, any interest in
land situated in the Australian Capital Territory becomes vested in a person,
the Crown Solicitor may lodge with the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of
Titles of that Territory a notice, signed by the Crown Solicitor or by an
officer of the Attorney-General's Department authorized by the Crown Solicitor
for the purpose, stating that that interest in land is vested in the person by
virtue of the operation of this Division, and the officer with whom the notice
is so lodged shall make such entries in his registers, and do such other
things, as are necessary to reflect the operation of this Division in relation
to that interest in land.

(2) The Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of Titles of the Australian Capital
Territory may, by notice in writing given to the Authority, require the
Authority to produce to him any Crown lease or other document in the
possession or within the control of the Authority affecting land in the
Australian Capital Territory in which an interest has become vested in a
person by reason of the operation of this Division.

(3) If the Authority fails to comply with a requirement in a notice given to
the Authority under sub-section (2), the Authority is, in respect of each day
(including a day of a conviction under this sub-section or a subsequent day)
during which the failure continues, guilty of an offence punishable on
conviction by a fine not exceeding $200.

(4) If a requirement under sub-section (2) requires the production of a Crown
lease or other document within a particular period or before a particular
time, the obligation to produce the Crown lease or other document continues
notwithstanding that that period has expired or that time has passed until the
Crown lease or other document is produced.

(5) Charges against the Authority for any number of offences under sub-section
(3) may be joined in the same information if those offences relate to a
failure to produce the same document.

(6) If the Authority is found guilty of more than one offence under
sub-section (3), the court may impose one penalty in respect of all the
offences, but that penalty shall not exceed the sum of the maximum penalties
that could be imposed if a penalty were imposed in respect of each offence
separately.