TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 42 Estate of registered proprietor paramount

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 42

S. 42(1) amended by Nos 18/1989 s. 12(Sch. 1 item 75(a)), 25/2023 s. 7(Sch.  1 item 28.3).

    (1)     Notwithstanding the existence in any other person of any estate or interest (whether derived by grant from His Majesty or otherwise) which but for this Act might be held to be paramount or to have priority, the registered proprietor of land shall, except in case of fraud, hold such land subject to such encumbrances as are recorded on the relevant folio of the Register but absolutely free from all other encumbrances whatsoever, except—

S. 42(1)(a) amended by No. 18/1989 s. 12(Sch. 1 item 75(b)).

        (a)     the estate or interest of a proprietor claiming the same land under a prior folio of the Register;

S. 42(1)(b) amended by No. 18/1989 s. 12(Sch. 1 item 75(c)).

        (b)     as regards any portion of the land that by wrong description of parcels or boundaries is included in the folio of the Register or instrument evidencing the title of such proprietor not being a purchaser for valuable consideration or deriving from or through such a purchaser.

S. 42(2) amended by No. 18/1989 s. 12(Sch. 1 item 76(a)(b)).

    (2)     Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing the land which is included in any folio of the Register or registered instrument shall be subject to—

        (a)     the reservations exceptions conditions and powers (if any) contained in the Crown grant of the land;

        (b)     any rights subsisting under any adverse possession of the land;

        (c)     any public rights of way;

        (d)     any easements howsoever acquired subsisting over or upon or affecting the land;

        (e)     the interest (but excluding any option to purchase) of a tenant in possession of the land;

S. 42(2)(f) amended by Nos 81/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 52), 42/2017 s. 20, 9/2020 s. 390(Sch.  1 item 103).

        (f)     any unpaid land tax, and also any unpaid rates and other charges which can be discovered from a certificate issued under section 121 of the Local Government Act 2020 , section 158 of the Water Act 1989 or any other enactment specified for the purposes of this paragraph by proclamation of the Governor in Council published in the Government Gazette—

notwithstanding the same respectively are not specially recorded as encumbrances on the relevant folio of the Register.

No. 5842 s. 43.