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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 253 Powers and duties of the registrar

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 253

Powers and duties of the registrar

253 Powers and duties of the registrar

For the purposes of carrying into effect this division, the registrar—

(a) in the case of any application to bring land under the Real Property Acts whether under section 250 or otherwise, or in the case of any application for the issue of a certificate of title under section 251 —may, if the registrar thinks fit, and with the approval of the master of titles by direction under his or her hand dispense with advertisement of the application or with any other step which is or may be required under the Real Property Acts for the purpose or in the course of making or dealing with an application to bring land under those provisions, and afterwards the application shall not be invalidated because of the failure to take any such step but shall proceed without such step having been taken; and
(b) may cause any necessary survey to be made and a plan of survey to be prepared of any unregistered land which it is proposed to describe in a notice under section 250 (1) ; and
(c) shall have such further powers and duties as may be prescribed.