REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 208

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 208

208—Proceedings against the Registrar-General as nominal defendant

Any person sustaining loss or damage through any omission, mistake, or misfeasance of the Registrar-General, or a person engaged in the administration of this Act, or of any Act hereby repealed, and any person deprived of any land through the bringing of the same under the provisions of this Act, or of any Act hereby repealed, or by the registration of any other person as proprietor of such land, or by any error, omission, or misdescription in any certificate, or in any entry or memorial in the Register Book, and who by the provisions of this Act is barred from bringing an action for the recovery of such land, may, in any case in which the remedy by action for recovery of compensation as hereinbefore provided is barred, or inapplicable, institute proceedings against the Registrar-General, as nominal defendant, for recovery of compensation as hereinafter provided.