Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Transfer of Land Act 1958 - SECT 114

Inspection of Register

114. Inspection of Register





(1) Any person may have access to recordings in the Register at any time when
the Office of Titles is open to the public.



(2) The Registrar shall furnish to any person who applies therefor a certified
reproduction of any manual folio of the Register or registered instrument.

(3) Any such certified reproduction shall be admissible in evidence before all
Courts and persons acting judicially within Victoria.



(4) Nothing in section 67 of the Evidence Act 1958 shall apply to or in
relation to the Register.





(5) If material purporting to reproduce the contents of any folio of the
Register or registered instrument is made available in any visible form to any
person having access to the Register, he shall not be entitled to have access
to the original folio of the Register or registered instrument.

(6) Subsection (5) shall have effect in relation to material made available
for access-

   (a)  regardless of the time when material or anything used to represent the
        material was prepared; and

   (b)  notwithstanding the fact that anything is represented in a manner
        different from that in which it would be represented in the original
        document.

(7) Any material made available for access as provided by subsection (5) shall
in favour of any person relying on the access to the Register be deemed to
constitute the relevant portion of the Register as at the time it is made
available for access.