REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 13A
Bringing of purchases etc of Crown land under Act
REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 13A
Bringing of purchases etc of Crown land under Act
13A Bringing of purchases etc of Crown land under Act
(1) Where a person has an estate in fee simple in land to which this Part
applies (not being a homestead selection under the Crown Lands Acts), the
Registrar-General may, by creating a folio of the Register in the name of the
person who, in the opinion of the Registrar-General, is entitled to be the
registered proprietor of the land, bring the land under the provisions of this
Act.
(2) The Registrar-General shall, in accordance with subsection (1),
bring land referred to in that subsection under the provisions of this Act if
the Registrar-General is satisfied that--
(a) the purchase money (if any) and
all other money payable to the Crown in respect of the land have been paid,
and
(b) where the land was sold or otherwise disposed of subject to
conditions, those conditions have been performed or complied with, as the case
may be.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) (b), the conditions subject to
which the land referred to in that paragraph was sold or otherwise disposed of
shall be deemed to have been performed or complied with, as the case may be,
if--
(a) where the land is not within an irrigation area, the Minister
authorised to sell or otherwise dispose of the land on behalf of the Crown (or
a person authorised by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection), or
(b) where the land is within an irrigation area, the Water Administration
Ministerial Corporation,
has advised the Registrar-General that the Minister
(or the person authorised by the Minister) or the Corporation is satisfied
that those conditions have been sufficiently performed or complied with, as
the case may be.
