ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 287
Amendment of description of land
ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 287
Amendment of description of land
287 Amendment of description of land
(1) If, at any time after a deed of grant under this Act takes effect, greater
certainty, by survey or otherwise, is obtained as to the boundaries of the
land, the trustee must, on receipt of a written notice to do so by the chief
executive, surrender to the State the deed to the land within such reasonable
period as is specified in the notice.
(2) On surrender of the deed, a new
deed of grant delineating the amended boundaries is to be issued to the
trustee.
(3) The new deed of grant is to be issued on the same ground (if
any) as the surrendered deed of grant.
(4) The registrar must endorse on the
new deed of grant, in the proper order or priority, the instruments under
which existing relevant interests arose.
