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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1958 - SECT 6 Registration of deeds, conveyances etc.

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1958 - SECT 6

Registration of deeds, conveyances etc.

    (1)     All deeds conveyances and other instruments in writing (except leases for less than three years) of or relating to or in any manner affecting any lands tenements or hereditaments situated lying and being in Victoria may be entered and registered in the office of the Registrar-General in the manner hereinafter directed; and all such deeds conveyances and other instruments in writing as aforesaid, if made and executed bona fide and for a valuable consideration and registered in conformity with the provisions of this Act, shall have and be allowed priority over every other deed conveyance or other instrument in writing (that is to say)—The deed conveyance or other instrument in writing first registered in the office of the Registrar-General, if the same be registered in conformity with this Act, shall have priority in respect of all lands tenements or hereditaments conveyed or affected by such deed conveyance or other instrument in writing over every other deed conveyance or other instrument in writing whatsoever and howsoever conveying or affecting the same lands tenements or hereditaments; and the deed conveyance or other instrument in writing next registered as aforesaid mutatis mutandis shall have priority over every other deed conveyance or instrument in writing as aforesaid; and so on according to the priority of the time of registering such deed conveyance or instrument in writing as aforesaid.

S. 6(2) inserted by No. 85/1998 s. 22(2).

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), no deed conveyance or other instrument may be registered in the office of the Registrar-General under that subsection on and from the commencement of section 6 of the Transfer of Land (Single Register) Act 1998 .

S. 7 amended by Nos 9043 s. 2(a)(i)(ii), 110/1986 s. 140(2), 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. items 166.2, 166.3(a)(b)), 35/1996 s. 453(Sch. 1 item 68.1), 23/1998 s. 8(1), repealed by No. 85/1998 s. 22(1).

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S. 8 amended by No. 8181 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 157), repealed by No. 85/1998 s. 22(1).

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Ss 9, 10 repealed by No. 85/1998 s. 22(1).

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S. 11 amended by No. 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 166.4

(a)(b)), repealed by No. 85/1998 s. 22(1).

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S. 12 amended by No. 9043 s. 2(b), repealed by No. 85/1998 s. 22(1).

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Nos 3754 s. 13, 6012 s. 8(1)(a), 6123 s. 3(e).

S. 13 amended by No. 9019 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 192).