REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 141
Certain fraudulent acts to be deemed indictable offences
REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 141
Certain fraudulent acts to be deemed indictable offences
141 Certain fraudulent acts to be deemed indictable offences
(1) If any
person--
(a) fraudulently procures, assists in fraudulently procuring or is
privy to the fraudulent procuring of--
(i) the creation of a folio of the
Register,
(iii) a recording in the Register, or
(iv) any alteration in any
instrument or form issued by the Registrar-General,
(b) fraudulently uses,
assists in fraudulently using, or is privy to the fraudulent using of any form
purporting to be issued or sanctioned by the Registrar-General, or
(c)
knowingly misleads or deceives any person hereinbefore authorised to demand
explanation or information in respect to any land or the title to any land
which is the subject of any application to bring the same under the provisions
of this Act, or in respect to which any dealing is proposed to be registered
or recorded,
he or she shall be guilty of an indictable offence, and shall
incur a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units, or may, at the discretion of
the Court before whom the case may be tried, be imprisoned for any period not
exceeding three years.
(2) Any folio of the Register, recording or alteration
the creation or making of which has been procured by fraud shall be void as
between all parties or privies to the fraud.
