New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 33

33 Issue of certificates of title

(1) The Registrar-General may, if the Registrar-General thinks fit so to do, from time to time issue a certificate of title for the land comprised in any folio of the Register and may, for the purposes of subsection (4), require the production to the Registrar-General of any certificate of title.

(2) A certificate of title shall be in an approved form.

(3) The Registrar-General shall not issue a certificate of title unless there is endorsed on the certificate of title the distinctive reference allocated to the folio of the Register to which it relates.

(4) When the Registrar-General issues a certificate of title, the Registrar-General shall cancel, wholly or partially as the case may require, any certificate of title thereby superseded and that has been produced, or is otherwise available, to the Registrar-General.

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (1) but subject to subsection (6), the Registrar-General shall issue a certificate of title for the land comprised in a folio of the Register upon the written request of:

(a) the registered proprietor of that land, or

(b) any registered mortgagee, registered chargee or covenant chargee of that land.

(6) A request made under subsection (5) does not require the Registrar-General to issue a certificate of title for the land comprised in a folio of the Register if a certificate of title for that land has been issued but has not been lodged with the Registrar-General.