Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) Where, by any provision of this Part, a proprietor is required to produce to the Recorder instruments constituting, or in any way affecting, his title, a mortgagee or other person who holds those instruments shall, upon being requested to do so by the proprietor, at the cost of the proprietor, produce those instruments to the Recorder.
(2) The Supreme Court may, on the application of the Recorder or of a person who is required by any provision of this Part to produce it to the Recorder, order any specified person who has in his possession or under his control an instrument evidencing title to land to which that person claims title, within such time as may be limited by the order, to produce and leave that instrument at the office of the Recorder, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as to costs or otherwise as the Court considers necessary.
(3) Production of instruments to the Recorder under subsection (1) does not affect a lien which the person producing the instruments may have, and an order made under subsection (2) may preserve a lien.
(4) A person producing instruments to the Recorder under subsection (1) may do so subject to the condition that the Recorder shall deliver to that person the certificate of title issued upon the bringing of the land, or any part of the land, to which the instruments relate under this Act, and an order made under subsection (2) may contain a similar condition.