REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 28ZD
Information and production of documents
REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 28ZD
Information and production of documents
28ZD Information and production of documents
(1) The Registrar-General, for the purpose of bringing land under the
provisions of this Act in accordance with this Part, may--
(a) retain any deed
in the possession of the Registrar-General which purports to convey or vest
any estate or interest in the land,
(b) require persons lodging any such deed
to furnish a statement in the approved form supplying the particulars therein
requested in relation to any such estate or interest, and
(c) by notice in
writing served on any person, require the person to produce within a period
specified in the notice, being a period expiring not earlier than one month
after the date of the notice, any deed or other document or the certificate
which the person is able to produce and particulars whereof are specified in
the notice, being a deed, document or certificate relating to any estate or
interest in the land.
(2) Any person who wilfully refuses or neglects to
comply with any requirement under subsection (1) or who makes any statement
pursuant to such a requirement that, to the person's knowledge, is false or
misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an indictable offence
and shall be liable therefor to the penalty or punishment provided by
section 141 (1).