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TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893

Table of Provisions

PART IA -- Preliminary  

  • 1 Short title
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  • 2 Repeals and savings
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  • 3 Application of other laws etc. and this Act
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  • 4 Terms used; application of Act to Crown land
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  • 4A Sections of this Act that do not apply to Crown land

PART I -- Officers  

  • 5 Commissioner of Titles
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  • 6 Deputy Commissioner of Titles
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  • 7 Registrar of Titles
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  • 7A Offices of Commissioner and Registrar may be held by one person
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  • 8 Examiner of Titles, Assistant Registrar of Titles
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  • 8A Designating statutory officers, generally
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  • 9 Certain signatures to be judicially noticed
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  • 10 Seal
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  • 11 Assistant Registrar’s powers
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  • 12 Commissioner and Examiner of Titles not to practise law
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  • 13 Oaths of office
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  • 14 Commissioner and Registrar may exercise functions electronically
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  • 15 Delegation by Commissioner
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  • 15A Delegation by Registrar
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  • 16 Rules relating to surveyors
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  • 17 Some of Minister for Lands’ functions under this Act may be performed by authorised officer

PART II -- Bringing land under the Act  

  • 20 Bringing lands alienated in fee before 1 July 1875 under this Act
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  • 20A Evidence and restrictions of requisitions
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  • 21 How application to be dealt with when no dealing has been registered
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  • 22 How application to be dealt with when dealing has been registered
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  • 23 Notice of application to bring land under this Act and rescission of previous directions on undue delay
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  • 24 Person claiming title by possession to post notice of application on land
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  • 25 Land to be brought under this Act unless caveat received
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  • 26 Land occupied may be brought under this Act by different description from that in title on special application
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  • 27 Applications to bring land under this Act or to amend certificate may be granted as to land occupied under but not described in title deeds or certificate
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  • 28 Title may be given to excess of land occupied under Crown grant over land described in Crown grant
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  • 29 Excess of land may be apportioned between different owners or proprietors
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  • 30 Parties interested may lodge caveat
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  • 31 If caveat received, proceedings suspended
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  • 32 Caveat to lapse unless proceedings taken within one month
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  • 33 Judge may require production of title deeds in support of application to bring land under this Act
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  • 34 Applicant may withdraw application
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  • 35 Documents of title
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  • 36 Subsisting lease to be endorsed and returned
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  • 37 Additional evidence to be scheduled
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  • 38 Some certificates of title to issue in name of deceased person
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  • 39 Registration of leaseholds
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  • 42 Production of lease may be dispensed with on bringing land under this Act
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  • 43 Certain memorials to be sufficient evidence of conveyances in fee
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  • 45 Commissioner may direct Registrar to bring land under this Act
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  • 46 Title to land sold under order or decree may be deemed sufficient
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  • 47 Formalities of order

PART III -- Certificates of titles and registration  

  • 48 Register
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  • 48A Certificates of title
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  • 48B No duplicate certificate of title to be issued
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  • 48C Symbols
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  • 49 One certificate may be created for lands not contiguous
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  • 50 Area of land need not be mentioned in certificate
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  • 52 Registration of certificates of title and instruments
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  • 53 Priority of registration of instruments
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  • 54 Incorporation of terms etc. of certain memoranda
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  • 55 Trusts
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  • 56 Memorandum to state certain particulars
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  • 58 Instruments not effectual until registered
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  • 59 Notations as to legal disability of proprietor
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  • 60 Joint tenants and tenants in common
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  • 61 Effect of insertion of words “no survivorship”
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  • 62 Notice to be published before effect given to order
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  • 63 Certificate to be conclusive evidence of title
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  • 63A Certificates may contain statement of easements
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  • 64 Certificate conclusive evidence as to title to easements
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  • 65 Short forms etc. for easements, effect of
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  • 65A Memorandum of easement
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  • 66A No separate certificate for easement
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  • 67 Certificate conclusive evidence in suit for specific performance or action for damages
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  • 68 Estate of registered proprietor paramount
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  • 69 Certain easements and conditions to be noted as encumbrances
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  • 70 Reversions expectant on leases
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  • 70A Factors affecting use and enjoyment of land, notification on title
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  • 71 Single certificate may be created instead of separate ones
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  • 71A Separate certificates may be created instead of single one
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  • 72 History of dealings to be preserved
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  • 74A Substitute certificates of title
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  • 81 Words of inheritance or succession to be implied

PART IIIA -- Crown leases  

  • 81A Registration of Crown leases issued on or after 2 May 1910
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  • 81B Registration of Crown leases issued before 2 May 1910
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  • 81C Effect of registration
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  • 81D Registration of transfer etc.
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  • 81E No foreclosure without consent of Minister for Lands
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  • 81F Entry of forfeiture
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  • 81G Crown lessee to be deemed of full age
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  • 81H Sections of this Act and land Acts that do not apply to Crown leases
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  • 81I Mortgage of Crown lease to be transferred to Crown grant

PART IIIB -- Registration and recording in relation to Crown land

Division 1 -- General  

  • 81J Application of this Part
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  • 81K Terms used
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  • 81L Creation and registration of certificates of Crown land title and qualified certificates of Crown land title
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  • 81M Lodging etc. of management orders
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  • 81N Crown surveys
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  • 81O No duplicate certificates of Crown land title or duplicate qualified certificates of Crown land title to be issued
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  • 81P Endorsements on certificates of Crown land title and qualified certificates of Crown land title
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  • 81Q Leases and subleases of Crown land, registration of
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  • 81R Profits à prendre, registration of
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  • 81RA Other encumbrances in respect of fee simple in Crown land
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  • 81S Prerequisites to registering dealings as to Crown land
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  • 81T Registered proprietors etc. protected against ejectment except in certain cases

Division 2 -- Transitional  

  • 81U Registrar may accept for registration signed and stamped duplicate original documents
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  • 81V Minister for Lands may apply for cancellation, creation etc. of certificates of Crown land title etc.
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  • 81W Procedure when applications referred to Commissioner
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  • 81X Procedure on lodging of caveat under s. 81W(6)
  •   81Y. Registrar’s duties when applications made under s. 81V(1)(a) granted  
  • 81Z Registrar’s duties when applications made under s. 81V(1)(b) granted
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  • 81ZA Procedure for registering interests for which no certificate of Crown land title or qualified certificate of Crown land title exists
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  • 81ZB Qualified certificates of Crown land title, general matters
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  • 81ZC Interests in Crown land not registered within transitional period void as against registered interests in Crown land etc.
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  • 81ZD Registrar may convert Crown leases into leases registered under s. 81Q

PART IV -- Dealings with land

Division 1 -- Transfers  

  • 82 Transfers
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  • 83 Transfer to include right to sue thereunder
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  • 84 Transfers may be to proprietor and others jointly etc.
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  • 85 Signed and registered instruments have efficacy of deeds
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  • 86 Registration of transfer
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  • 87 Total transfer by endorsement on paper title or by entering transferee’s name on digital title
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  • 88 Transferee of encumbered land to indemnify transferor
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  • 88A Memorial of easements to be registered

Division 2 -- Leases and subleases  

  • 91 Leases
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  • 92 Covenants by lessee implied in leases
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  • 93 Lessor’s powers implied in leases
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  • 94 Short forms of covenants by lessees
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  • 95 Covenant to be implied on transfer of lease
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  • 96 Recovery of possession by lessors to be entered in Register
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  • 97 Mortgagee of interest of bankrupt lessee may apply to be entered as transferee of lease and on default lessor may apply
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  • 98 Surrendering leases
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  • 99 Lessee may sublet
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  • 100 Registration of subleases
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  • 102 Provisions about leases apply to subleases
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  • 103 Covenants implied in subleases
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  • 104 Determination of lease or sublease by re-entry to be entered in Register

Division 2A -- Carbon rights and carbon covenants  

  • 104A Terms used
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  • 104B Registration of carbon right form
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  • 104C Extension of carbon right
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  • 104D Transfer of carbon right
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  • 104E Mortgage of carbon right
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  • 104F Surrender of carbon right
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  • 104G Registration of carbon covenant form
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  • 104H Extension of carbon covenant
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  • 104I Variation of carbon covenant
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  • 104J Transfer of benefits under carbon covenant
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  • 104K Mortgage of carbon covenant
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  • 104L Surrender of carbon covenant

Division 2B -- Tree plantation agreements and plantation interests  

  • 104M Terms used
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  • 104N Registration of tree plantation agreement
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  • 104O Extension of plantation interest
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  • 104P Variation of agreement
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  • 104Q Transfer of plantation interests
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  • 104R Mortgage of plantation interests
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  • 104S Surrender of plantation interests

Division 3 -- Mortgages and annuities  

  • 105 Mortgages and charges for annuities, creating
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  • 105AA Mortgages lodged electronically
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  • 105A Extension of mortgage, charge or lease
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  • 106 Mortgage or charge not to operate as transfer; default procedures
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  • 107 Written demand equivalent to written notice
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  • 108 Power to sell in cases of continuing default
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  • 109 Application of purchase money
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  • 110 Transfer after sale by mortgagee etc., effect of
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  • 111 Remedies of mortgagee or annuitant in cases of default
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  • 112 Further remedies of mortgagee or annuitant
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  • 112A Abolition of power of distress
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  • 113 Covenants implied in mortgages
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  • 114 Mortgagee or annuitant of leasehold entering into possession become liable to lessor
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  • 115 Short form of covenant by mortgagor to insure
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  • 116 Rights of mortgagees generally
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  • 117 Mortgagor not to sue on cause of action available to mortgagee without mortgagee’s consent
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  • 118 Application of money obtained by mortgagor in action for waste of or damage to mortgaged lands
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  • 119 Mortgagee may seek court order as to money recovered by mortgagor in action
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  • 120 Application of moneys obtained by mortgagee in action
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  • 121 Foreclosure, application for order for
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  • 122 Application for foreclosure to be advertised
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  • 123 Discharge of mortgages and annuities
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  • 124 Mortgages etc. made before land brought under this Act
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  • 125 Entry of satisfaction of annuity
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  • 126 Payments under and discharge of mortgages when mortgagee absent from State etc.
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  • 127A Subsequent mortgages or charges
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  • 128 Land brought under this Act subject to mortgage, rights of mortgagee etc.
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  • 128A Another mortgagee may tender payment

Division 3A -- Restrictive covenants and the modification, discharge and enforcement of restrictive covenants and easements  

  • 129A Creation of restrictive covenants
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  • 129B Discharge and modification of restrictive covenants
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  • 129BA Restrictive covenants benefiting local governments and public authorities
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  • 129BB Discharge and modification of s. 129BA covenants
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  • 129C Supreme Court’s powers as to easements etc.

Division 4 -- Miscellaneous  

  • 130 Seal of corporation substitute for signature
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  • 131 Implied covenants and powers may be modified or negatived
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  • 133 Property (seizure and sale) order, registration of etc.
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  • 134 Purchaser from registered proprietor not required to inquire into title and not affected by notice of unregistered interest etc.
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  • 135 Transferee of tenant in tail may be registered for larger estate which tenant in tail can confer
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  • 136 Registrar to furnish plan showing land dealt with where memorandum on certificate does not describe the land

PART IVA -- Creation of easements and restrictive covenants by notations on subdivision plans and diagrams  

  • 136A Term used: plan
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  • 136B Application of this Part
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  • 136C Notation of easements on subdivision plans
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  • 136D Notation of restrictive covenants on subdivision plans
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  • 136E Consent of certain persons required to creation of easements and restrictive covenants
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  • 136F When easements and restrictive covenants under this Part have effect
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  • 136G Easements and restrictive covenants under this Part may be effective for specified term only
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  • 136H Easements and restrictive covenants under this Part may both burden and benefit land of same proprietor
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  • 136I Recordings in Register
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  • 136J Discharge and modification of easements and restrictive covenants under this Part

PART V -- Caveats  

  • 136K Term used: section 138A caveat; application of this Part
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  • 137 Lodging caveats for land already under this Act
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  • 138 Consequences of lodging caveat
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  • 138A Caveats to which s. 138B to 138D apply
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  • 138B Requiring caveator to seek court order extending s. 138A caveat
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  • 138C Supreme Court’s powers on application by caveator
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  • 138D Restrictions on caveators lodging further s. 138A caveats
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  • 139 Effect of caveats
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  • 140 Compensation for caveat lodged without reasonable cause
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  • 141 Registrar’s duties when caveat lodged or lapses
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  • 141A Requiring caveators to withdraw caveats or substantiate their claims
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  • 142 Caveat on behalf of beneficiary under will or settlement does not bar registration in certain cases

PART VI -- Powers of attorney and attestation of instruments  

  • 143 Powers of attorney, creation and filing of
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  • 144 Powers of attorney, effect of
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  • 145 Signatures on documents, witnessing requirements

PART VII -- Search certificates and stay orders  

  • 146 Finding out whether proprietor is free to deal with land
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  • 147 Person issued search certificate under s. 146 entitled to inspect certificate of title
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  • 148 Person proposing to deal with proprietor may obtain stay of registration for 48 hours if title is clear
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  • 149 Instrument effecting proposed dealing entitled to priority if lodged within 48 hour stay granted under s.
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  • 150 Other instruments received in the 48 hours to have usual priority if proposed dealing not lodged under s.

PART VIII -- Surveys, plans, parcels and boundaries  

  • 151 Crown survey boundaries as marked on ground are true boundaries
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  • 152 Crown grant or lease conveys land within survey boundaries
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  • 153 Aliquot parts of Crown section having excess of area
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  • 153A Land not in grant etc. but included in certificate due to error in survey may be deemed included in grant etc.
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  • 154 How boundaries may be proved in absence of survey marks
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  • 155 Margin of error allowed in description of boundaries
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  • 156 Commissioner may require special survey of land
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  • 157 Commissioner may require accuracy of survey to be verified
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  • 158 Commissioner may disregard minute errors of dimensions
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  • 159 Excess land may be apportioned between different owners or proprietors
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  • 160 Commissioner’s powers where boundaries unclear in subdivision
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  • 161 Plan to be made of subdivision proposed under s.
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  • 162 Subdivision proposed under s. 160 to be advertised etc.
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  • 163 Finalised subdivision, verification and effect of plan of
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  • 164 Public notice to be given of finalised subdivision and plan
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  • 165 Expense of survey ordered under s. 160, how paid
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  • 166 New certificates of title on subdivision of land
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  • 166A Subdivisions of Crown land
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  • 166B Subsidiary certificates of Crown land title
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  • 167 Number of allotment on plan of subdivision sufficient description for purposes of dealing
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  • 167A Rights of way generally not public ways or thoroughfares
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  • 168 Abuttals may be used in description of land in certificate
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  • 169 Objects which may constitute abuttals

PART IX -- Amendment of certificates and amendment or replacement of graphics  

  • 169A Only Minister for Lands may alter areas, boundaries or positions of parcels of Crown land
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  • 170 Proprietor may apply for amendment of certificate to make boundaries coincide with land occupied under certificate
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  • 171 Proprietor may apply to have other certificates amended where inconsistent with description of land in his certificate and occupied by him
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  • 172 Form of application under s. 170 or
  •   173. How application under s. 170 or 171 to be dealt with  
  • 174 Notice of s. 170 or 171 application to be given to owners etc. of adjourning land affected by it
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  • 175 Notice of s. 170 or 171 application to be published and publicly displayed
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  • 176 Person opposing s. 170 or 171 application may lodge caveat
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  • 177 Applications under s. 170, 171 or 20 may be granted although other certificates may be affected
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  • 178 Certificate of title and relevant graphics may be amended or replaced on granting application

PART X -- Special powers and duties of the Commissioner and Registrar  

  • 180 Commissioner may summons people to provide information
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  • 181A Commissioner and Registrar may require supporting documentation or evidence or verification
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  • 181B Commissioner and Registrar may require verification by statutory declaration
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  • 181 Regulations
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  • 182AA Prescribed fees may exceed cost recovery
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  • 182AB Expiry of s. 182AA
  •   182A. Commissioner and Registrar may determine requirements  
  • 182B Publication of requirements
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  • 182 Orders vesting trust estate
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  • 183 Commissioner may make vesting order in cases of completed purchase
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  • 184 Encumbrances which no longer affect title, powers to deal with
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  • 187 Appointment of executor, administrator or Public Trustee, entry on Register and effect
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  • 188 Powers of Registrar
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  • 189 Registrar may correct apparent errors in instruments without direction of Commissioner
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  • 190 Money received by Registrar
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  • 191 Registrar may demand prescribed fees
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  • 192A Registrar entitled to assume that lodging party has certain authorities from other interested parties
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  • 192B Registrar may refuse lodgment for non-compliance with certain requirements
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  • 192C Commissioner may refuse to take action if requirements not complied with
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  • 192D Registrar may refuse registration, noting or recording for non-compliance with requirements
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  • 192E Notice of non-compliance under s. 192D
  •   192. Defective documents, rejection of  
  • 193 Power to state case for Supreme Court

PART XI -- Restrictions on, and recovery of, payments of compensation by State  

  • 195 Moneys paid by State under s. 201 may be recovered
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  • 196 State not liable in certain cases

PART XII -- Actions and other remedies  

  • 198 Officers not to be liable for acts done bona fide
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  • 199 Registered proprietor protected against ejectment except in certain cases
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  • 200 Court may direct cancellation of certificate or entry in Register in certain cases
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  • 201 Compensation of person deprived of land
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  • 202 Purchasers protected
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  • 203 Owner may require Commissioner or Registrar to substantiate decision before Supreme Court
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  • 204 Cost of summons and proceedings under s. 203 to be in discretion of court
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  • 205 Actions for damages may in some cases be brought against Registrar as nominal defendant
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  • 206 Actions for damages for loss due to inaccurate survey
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  • 207 Actions for damages in certain other cases
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  • 208 Claims for damages may be made to Commissioner before commencing court action
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  • 209 Notice of action to be served
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  • 210 Damages etc. awarded to be charged to Consolidated Account
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  • 211 Limitation of actions
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  • 212 Rules of Supreme Court to apply and same right of appeal as in ordinary actions
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  • 213 Obligation to make discovery not excluded

PART XIII -- Offences  

  • 214 Offences
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  • 214A Effect of fraud

PART XIV -- Miscellaneous  

  • 219 Person entitled under will etc. may apply to be registered
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  • 220 Application under s. 219, how dealt with
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  • 221 Remainder-man or reversioner may apply to be registered
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  • 222 Person claiming title under statute of limitations may apply to be registered
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  • 223 Application under s. 222, how dealt with
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  • 223A Caveat against application
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  • 227 Survivor of joint proprietors may apply to be registered
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  • 228 Proprietors and transferees for time being to stand in place of previous owners
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  • 229 Proprietor’s name, use of in court action by beneficiary etc.
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  • 229A Easement not used or enjoyed for 20 years, removal of
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  • 229B Orders made under s. 229A, effect of
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  • 230 On s. 20 applications, easements not used for 20 years or more may be omitted from certificate
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  • 231 Buildings on public roads etc. in Perth or Fremantle for 20 years or more
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  • 232B Effect of using alternative means to provide consent, permission or approval
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  • 232 Receipt for documents lodged
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  • 233 Pending actions etc. not to affect dealings
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  • 234 Trustees etc. of bankrupts etc. may apply to be registered
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  • 235 Bankruptcy of proprietor not to affect dealings until s. 234 application or caveat lodged
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  • 236 Tenant in tail
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  • 237 Conditions of sale in Twenty-sixth Schedule, adoption of
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  • 238 Forms may be modified
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  • 238A Registrar’s copy to be definitive
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  • 238B Resubmission of document lodged electronically if data capture defective
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  • 239 Inspection of Register and related documents; obtaining copies and print-outs
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  • 239B Evidentiary documents as to current and historical matters
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  • 240 Service of notices
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  • 240A Notification of change of address or way of receiving notices electronically
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  • 242 Interests disposed of or created by court order etc., registration of
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  • 243 Registrar may cancel certificate of title when land revested in Crown

PART XV -- Transitional provisions for Electronic Conveyancing Act 2014  

PART 16 -- Transitional provisions for Transfer of Land Amendment Act 2022  

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