Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Property Law Act 1958 - SECT 6

Registration of deeds, conveyances etc.

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 wh atsoever 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.

(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.



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